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Poetry Please
- By: Adjoa Andoh
- Narrated by: Anton Lesser
- Length: 2 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance40
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BBC Radio 4's Poetry Please is the longest-running broadcast of verse anywhere in the world. First aired in 1979, the programme, a request show which broadcasts to two million listeners a week, has become a unique record of the country's best-loved poems over the decades since its inception. The BBC has looked back through its rich archive of recordings to produce a poll of the most asked-for and most broadcast pieces ever: 50 of those poems are read here by Adjoa Andoh and Anton Lesser.
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Not unabridged?
- By Paula09 on 07-12-18
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Poetry Please
- Narrated by: Anton Lesser
- Length: 2 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 04-09-14
- Language: English
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The Satires
- By: Juvenal
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
- Length: 5 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance10
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Story10
Listening to The Satires by Juvenal is to come face to face with the corruption, the debauchery, the waste, the sloth, and the mean-spirited greed of ancient Rome...or is it more like modern times? Indeed, these masterpieces of biting social commentary could easily have been written today about any number of metropolitan areas we are all familiar with.
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Superb! A must own for any literate person!
- By Anonymous on 07-02-24
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The Satires
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
- Length: 5 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 01-12-06
- Language: English
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The History of English Poetry
- By: Peter Whitfield
- Narrated by: Derek Jacobi
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall76
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Performance54
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English literature is a treasure trove of wonderful poetry. From Shakespeare to Milton, Keats to Shelley and Tennyson to Yeats, this accessible history (especially written for Naxos Audiobooks) introduces the listener to countless small masterpieces, including all the old favorites and some lesser-known gems. Whitfield explores this most expressive of art forms and traces the historical development of a rich and diverse canon of poetical works.
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An Excellent introduction
- By Mr. C. J. O'hanlon on 15-05-10
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The History of English Poetry
- Narrated by: Derek Jacobi
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 28-09-09
- Language: English
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Clear Mind, Wild Heart
- Finding Courage and Clarity through Poetry
- By: David Whyte
- Narrated by: David Whyte
- Length: 6 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall15
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Performance12
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"In the middle of the road of my life, I awoke in a dark wood, where the true way was wholly lost." When you find yourself without bearings, as Dante Alighieri voiced so well centuries ago, where will you look for guidance? Throughout the ages, teaches David Whyte, the language of poetry has...
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Simply Wonderful
- By Harold Hughes on 13-05-16
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Clear Mind, Wild Heart
- Finding Courage and Clarity through Poetry
- Narrated by: David Whyte
- Length: 6 hrs
- Release date: 02-10-15
- Language: English
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Great Love Poems
- By: William Blake, Robert Burns, Edward Lear
- Narrated by: Jenny Agutter, Bill Paterson, Maxine Peake, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 19 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall56
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Performance46
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An anthology of over 60 classic love poems, read by some of our finest actors. Love has always been the supreme inspiration for poets, whether romantic or platonic, reciprocated or unrequited. This collection contains a range of the very best love poems, including Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress", Keats' "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" and Byron's "So We'll Go No More A-Roving" - as well as several sonnets from the master himself, William Shakespeare.
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brilliant poetry
- By Barbara on 26-08-24
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Great Love Poems
- Narrated by: Jenny Agutter, Bill Paterson, Maxine Peake, Rupert Penry-Jones, Bill Wallis
- Length: 1 hr and 19 mins
- Release date: 02-04-12
- Language: English
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From Song of Myself (A Poem from The Poets' Corner)
- The One-and-Only Poetry Book for the Whole Family
- By: John Lithgow
- Narrated by: John Lithgow
- Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall87
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Performance65
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Story62
From listening to his grandmother recite epic poems from memory to curling up in bed while his father read funny verses, award-winning actor John Lithgow grew up with poetry. Ever since, John has been an enthusiastic seeker of poetic experience, whether reading, reciting, or listening to great...
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Perfect poetry collection
- By Anna on 13-12-13
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From Song of Myself (A Poem from The Poets' Corner)
- The One-and-Only Poetry Book for the Whole Family
- Narrated by: John Lithgow
- Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 31-10-07
- Language: English
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Duty, Honor, Country, and Life
- By: William H. McRaven
- Narrated by: William H. McRaven
- Length: 4 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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From the author of Make Your Bed, The Hero Code and The Wisdom of the Bullfrog, comes an uplifting selection of speeches, letters, toasts and poems that capture the essence of who we are as Americans. Admiral McRaven's name has become synonymous with indelible advice for changing your life...
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Duty, Honor, Country, and Life
- Narrated by: William H. McRaven
- Length: 4 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 21-04-26
- Language: English
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Meister Eckhart's Book of the Heart
- Meditations for the Restless Soul
- By: Jon M. Sweeney, Mark S. Burrows
- Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
- Length: 1 hr and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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Performance5
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Meister Eckhart (1260-1328) was a priest, a mystic, and nearly a heretic (he died before the Church court's verdict). In the 20th century, the Roman Catholic Church rehabilitated him and the late Pope John Paul II spoke of his work with fondness. However, what makes him of particular interest is the fact that he has influenced a wide range of spiritual teachers and mystics both inside and outside the Christian tradition. Erich Fromm, Eckhart Tolle, Richard Rohr, D. T. Suzuki, and Rudolf Steiner have all credited Eckhart as being an important influence on their thought.
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Truly wonderful
- By Miss on 07-03-23
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Meister Eckhart's Book of the Heart
- Meditations for the Restless Soul
- Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
- Length: 1 hr and 38 mins
- Release date: 09-02-21
- Language: English
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La Divina Commedia (New edit)
- By: Dante Alighieri
- Narrated by: Ivano Marescotti
- Length: 13 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance3
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La realizzazione di questa Commedia di Dante si deve al contributo appassionato di diversi attori: Ivano Marescotti ha prestato la sua voce profonda e la sua interpretazione accurata e sensibile ai molti personaggi che pullulano nei tre regni visitati da Dante.
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A great book but terrible narration.
- By Paul K on 05-09-22
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La Divina Commedia (New edit)
- Narrated by: Ivano Marescotti
- Length: 13 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 17-02-14
- Language: Italian
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I Was a First Alto in the 1980s
- Poems
- By: Deborah Garrison
- Length: 1 hr
- Unabridged
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An astonishingly insightful and deeply felt collection of poems that meditate on time and the many stages of a woman's life—from girlhood to adolescence, from being a young wife and mother, to seeing your children grow up and depart—by the celebrated poet and bestselling author of A Working...
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I Was a First Alto in the 1980s
- Poems
- Length: 1 hr
- Release date: 16-03-27
- Language: English
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Poe: Tales of Madness, Horror, and Death
- By: Edgar Allan Poe
- Narrated by: Luc Elias
- Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Prepare yourself to shudder and ponder in the dark and haunting world of Edgar Allan Poe, the undisputed master of psychological horror and Gothic tales. In these tales, madness lurks beneath the surface of reason, guilt drives men to destruction, and death casts its shadow over every page.
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Poe: Tales of Madness, Horror, and Death
- Narrated by: Luc Elias
- Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 25-06-26
- Language: English
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Wrong Norma
- By: Anne Carson
- Narrated by: Eva Wilhelm
- Length: 3 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Anne Carson's first original work since Float (Knopf, 2016) A NEW YORK TIMES BEST POETRY BOOK OF 2024 WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR POETRY FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY Published here in a must-listen edition, several of the twenty-five startling poetic...
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Wrong Norma
- Narrated by: Eva Wilhelm
- Length: 3 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 25-08-26
- Language: English
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The Distance of a Shout
- Selected Poems
- By: Michael Ondaatje
- Narrated by: Michael Ondaatje
- Length: 4 hrs
- Unabridged
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One of Literary Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2026 A one-of-a-kind collection gathering fifty years of poetry by one of our most cherished authors. In The Distance of a Shout, Michael Ondaatje has assembled some of his finest poems into a singular poetic memoir that invokes the arc of his own...
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The Distance of a Shout
- Selected Poems
- Narrated by: Michael Ondaatje
- Length: 4 hrs
- Release date: 24-02-26
- Language: English
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The Great Poets: Alfred Lord Tennyson
- By: Alfred Tennyson
- Narrated by: Michael Pennington
- Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall40
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Performance37
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The 200th anniversary of the birth of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809 - 1892), one of the most popular of poets, is celebrated in 2009. Works such as The Charge of the Light Brigade, Crossing the Bar and Tears, Idle Tears have made him an internationally famous figure, and the second most quoted writer of all time (after Shakespeare).
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Great selection, very well read
- By LMC on 17-08-22
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The Great Poets: Alfred Lord Tennyson
- Narrated by: Michael Pennington
- Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
- Release date: 13-08-09
- Language: English
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Tennis Whites and Teacakes
- By: John Betjeman, Stephen Games
- Length: 2 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall16
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Performance9
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Betjeman's England is a place of patriotic poets and seaside coves, provincial cathedrals and eccentric dons. For fifty years, Betjeman celebrated the glories of Englishness and what it meant to be English. Against a tide of rapid change, he unearthed forgotten heroes, bygone haunts and...
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Disappointed
- By TCat on 16-04-19
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Tennis Whites and Teacakes
- Length: 2 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 09-08-07
- Language: English
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Midlife and the Great Unknown
- Finding Courage and Clarity Through Poetry
- By: David Whyte
- Narrated by: David Whyte
- Length: 2 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall126
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Performance110
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Story109
"In the middle of the road of my life I awoke in a dark wood, where the true way was wholly lost." When you find yourself suddenly without bearings, as Dante Alighieri voiced so well centuries ago, where will you look for guidance? Throughout the ages, teaches David Whyte, the language of poetry...
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Disappointing
- By Harold Hughes on 13-05-16
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Midlife and the Great Unknown
- Finding Courage and Clarity Through Poetry
- Narrated by: David Whyte
- Length: 2 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 12-12-08
- Language: English
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Shakespeare's Heartbeat
- 40 Sonnets for Navigating Big Feelings
- By: Sofia Barclay
- Narrated by: Sofia Barclay
- Length: 1 hr and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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What if Shakespeare understood you better than you understand yourself? In Shakespeare’s Heartbeat, actor Sofia Barclay examines 40 of Shakespeare’s most powerful sonnets as emotional guideposts for modern life. Blending personal insight with timeless poetry, she transforms these works into everyday tools for navigating love, heartbreak, desire and uncertainty.
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Shakespeare's Heartbeat
- 40 Sonnets for Navigating Big Feelings
- Narrated by: Sofia Barclay
- Length: 1 hr and 38 mins
- Release date: 02-06-26
- Language: English
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T. S. Eliot Reads The Waste Land, Four Quartets and Other Poems
- By: T. S. Eliot
- Length: 1 hr and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall26
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Performance21
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The most famous, beautiful and spiritually moving poems of the twentieth-century, read by the most famous poet. Historic recordings of the cream of Eliot’s poetry. It is always something of a revelation to listen to a poet reading his own words, and these recordings are no exception. Eliot...
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Love TS Eliot's narration
- By H. P. on 02-02-18
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T. S. Eliot Reads The Waste Land, Four Quartets and Other Poems
- Length: 1 hr and 44 mins
- Release date: 26-02-15
- Language: English
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The Luckiest Guy Alive
- By: John Cooper Clarke
- Narrated by: John Cooper Clarke
- Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall137
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Performance118
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The godfather of British performance poetry - Daily Telegraph The Luckiest Guy Alive, performed by the author, is the first new book of poetry from Dr John Cooper Clarke for several decades – and a brilliant, scabrous, hilarious collection from one of our most beloved and influential writers...
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Utter brilliance
- By edward on 08-01-19
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The Luckiest Guy Alive
- Narrated by: John Cooper Clarke
- Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
- Release date: 01-11-18
- Language: English
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The Great Poets: John Donne
- By: John Donne
- Narrated by: Geoffrey Whitehead, Will Keen
- Length: 1 hr and 9 mins
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Sophisticated wit and intense emotion, religious fervor and erotic sensuality, delight in life’s pleasures and fascination with death, are all to be found in the paradoxical poetry of John Donne. One of the foremost metaphysical poets, Donne’s ingenious metaphors and inspired use of language has earned him affection and reverence in near equal measure to Shakespeare.
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John Donne poems
- By Mr. William Hunt on 16-12-15
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The Great Poets: John Donne
- Narrated by: Geoffrey Whitehead, Will Keen
- Length: 1 hr and 9 mins
- Release date: 18-11-10
- Language: English
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