Poetry

By Various Authors

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An interlude dedicated to all things poetry. Here you will find readings from the poets themselves, brilliant actors and fantastic pupils, who contributed to bringing to life the words of some truly stunning poems from Shakespeare to current Poet Laureate Simon Armitage.

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W B Yeats, When You Are Old

Read by Cillian Murphy

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John Betjeman, A Subaltern’s Love Song

Read by John Betjeman

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Walter de la Mare, The Listeners

Read by Maurice Riordan

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Simon Armitage, A Vision

Read by Simon Armitage

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W H Auden, The Night Mail

Read by W H Auden

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Carol Ann Duffy, The Christmas Truce

Read by Carol Ann Duffy

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Maura Dooley, Letters from Yorkshire

Read by Maura Dooley

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Alfred Tennyson, The Charge of the Light Brigade

Read by Alfred Tennyson

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Bernard Levin, Quoting Shakespeare

Read by HM King Charles III

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Eavan Boland, Domestic Violence

Read by Jess Phillips

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Christina Rossetti, Echo

Read by Juliet Stevenson

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Henry Longfellow, The Song of Hiawatha

Read by Gyles Brandreth

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Robert Burns, Farewell to the Highlands

Read by HM Queen Camilla

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Derek Mahon, Everything is Going to Be All Right

Read by Andrew Scott

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Mary Oliver, Wild Geese

Read by Helena Bonham Carter

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Siegfried Sassoon, Everybody Sang

Read by Stephen Fry

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John Donne, No Man is an Island

Read by William Seighart

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Poetry Together

St Vincent’s School

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Poetry Together

Whitehall School

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Poetry Together

Knightsbridge School

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Ben Okri, In praise of Notre Dame

Read by Ben Okri

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Shakespeare, Sonnet 60

Read by Ben Okri

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Poets’ corner

Westminster Abbey

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