'Poetry Please' 20th Anniversary Programme, [1999]
Scope and Contents
A file holding a programme running order, an eight-page revised script, and copies of poems by various poets, all connected to the 20th anniversary edition of the [BBC Radio 4 series], Poetry Please. Anne Stevenson was asked to nominate a poem to be read by the presenters; she chose William Shakespeare's 'Sonnet 30.'
There also appears to be a partial script, which may or may not be connected to the 20th anniversary; and copies of poems that are not mentioned in the running order or revised script, but are listed in the partial script .
All items are word-processed.
Dates
- Creation: [1999]
Creator
- Barrington, Patrick William Daines, 1908-1990 (11th Viscount Barrington) (Person)
- British Broadcasting Corporation (Organization)
- Brooke, Rupert Chawner, 1887-1915 (poet) (Person)
- Clouts, Sydney, 1926-1982 (Poet) (Person)
- Collins, William James, b 1941 (Poet Laureate of the United States) (Person)
- Donne, John, 1572-1631 (poet and Church of England clergyman) (Person)
- Frost, Robert, 1874-1963 (Poet) (Person)
- Gilbert, William Schwenck, Sir, 1836-1911 (Knight, Dramatist) (Person)
- Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928 (novelist and poet) (Person)
- Joseph, Jenny, 1932-2018 (Poet) (Person)
- Kaplinski, Jaan, 1941-2021 (Poet and Politician) (Person)
- Lindsay, Nicholas Vachel, 1879-1931 (Poet) (Person)
- MacCaig, Norman Alexander, 1910-1996 (Poet) (Person)
- MacNeice, Louis, 1907-1963 (poet and dramatist) (Person)
- Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 1892-1950 (Poet and Playwright) (Person)
- Plath, Sylvia, 1932 - 1963 (afterwards Hughes, poet and novelist) (Person)
- Porteous, Katrina, b 1960 (Poet, Historian and Broadcaster) (Person)
- Roethke, Theodore Huebner, 1908-1963 (Poet) (Person)
- Rossetti, Christina Georgina, 1830 - 1894 (poet) (Person)
- Shakespeare, William, 1564 - 1616 (dramatist) (Person)
- Simpson, Louis, 1923-2012 (Poet) (Person)
- Thomas, Ronald Stuart, 1913-2000 (poet) (Person)
- Waterhouse, Keith Spencer, CBE, 1929-2009 (Novelist, Columnist and Screenwriter) (Person)
- Wyatt, Thomas, Sir, 1503-1542 (Knight, Poet and Politician) (Person)
- Yeats, William Butler, 1865-1939 (poet and playwright) (Person)
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Conditions Governing Use
Various copyright claimants.
Extent
1 file(s) (A gusseted folder.) : Paper
Language of Materials
English
Subject
- Stevenson, Anne Katharine, 1933-2020 (Poet) (Recipient, Person)
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