Poets and Poetry
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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