Poetry Please - 25/01/2009

Presented by Roger McGough. To celebrate the 250th anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns, John Mackay reads some of his greatest poems, as requested by listeners. Lia Williams reads other listeners' requests, including poems by ASJ Tessimond, Liz Lochhead and Lotte Kramer. Afton Water by Robert Burns From The Poetical Works of Robert Burns Bracken Books / Senate A Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns From The Poetical Works of Robert Burns Bracken Books / Senate John Anderson, My Jo by Robert Burns From the CD Eddi Reader Sings the Songs of Robert Burns Rough Trade RTRADECD097 Is there, for Honest Poverty, or A Man’s A Man for A’ That’ by Robert Burns From The Poetical Works of Robert Burns Bracken Books / Senate Ae Fond Kiss by Robert Burns From The Poetical Works of Robert Burns Bracken Books / Senate Now Westlin Winds by Robert Burns From the CD Handful of Earth by Dick Gaughan Topic TSCD 419 Holy Willie’s Prayer by Robert Burns From The Poetical Works of Robert Burns Bracken Books / Senate Lassie Lie Near Me by Robert Burns From The Poetical Works of Robert Burns Bracken Books / Senate Warming Her Pearls by Carol Ann Duffy From Carol Ann Duffy – Selected Poems Penguin The Sick Rose by William Blake From Songs of Innocence and Experience Oxford University Press To a Haggis by Robert Burns From The Poetical Works of Robert Burns Bracken Books / Senate Auld Lang Syne by Robert Burns Performed by the Rowallan Consort