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'''''Poetry Please''''' is a weekly radio programme broadcast on [[BBC Radio 4]] in which listeners request poems, which are then read by a cast of actors.<ref name="Dee">{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/sep/26/poetry-please-pulse-nation|title=Poetry Please: The poetic pulse of a nation |work=[[The Guardian]] |last=Dee|first=Tim|date=26 September 2013|accessdate=20 December 2016}}</ref> It is broadcast on Sunday afternoons and repeated the following Saturday night.<ref name="Dee" /> The current presenter is [[Roger McGough]], himself a poet. Performers regularly include some of the top names in British acting, such as [[Judi Dench]], [[Ian McKellen]], [[Prunella Scales]] and [[Timothy West]].

 

 

McGough's predecessor as presenter of ''Poetry Please'' was the Irish broadcaster and writer [[Frank Delaney]]. He described his pleasure in working on the programme, saying:<ref name="Delaney-2002">{{cite web|url=http://www.frankdelaney.com/articles.shtml|title=BBC Interview|year=2002|accessdate=20 December 2016}}</ref>

 

==External links==

*[http://www.faber.co.uk/catalog/poetry-please/9780571303281 ''Poetry Please'': The Nation's Best-Loved Poems]: a tie-in volume of poems from the radio programme, published by Faber & Faber with a foreword by Roger McGough.