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Stephen Lightbown – 10 poems from ‘The Last Custodian’ - Stephen Lightbown
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Stephen Lightbown
B. 1979
Stephen Lightbown was born in Blackburn, Lancashire. In 1996, aged 16, he experienced a life-changing accident and is now paralysed from below the waist. Lightbown writes extensively but not exclusively about his life as a wheelchair user. He teaches yoga…
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Imtiaz Dharker and Malika Booker – ‘Between The Ears’ for BBC 100 - Imtiaz Dharker
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Last Words - Michael Symmons Roberts
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Doun de Road - Linton Kwesi Johnson
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‘A is for ‘Announcer’ by Eleanor Farjeon – for BBC 100 - Eleanor Farjeon
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The Sundial - Gillian Clarke
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‘Jaguar Girl’ for BBC 100 - Pascale Petit
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The Applicant - Sylvia Plath
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In Parenthesis - David Jones
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Windrush Child - John Agard
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ABC in Sound - Bob Cobbing
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While summer suns o’er the gay prospect play’d
Read by Will Burns
While summer suns o’er the gay prospect play’d - Thomas Warton - Read by Will Burns
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An Autumn Homily
Read by Pascale Petit
An Autumn Homily - Alfred Austin - Read by Pascale Petit
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Thomas Warton
B. 1728 D. 1790
Born in Hampshire, Warton was appointed Poet Laureate in 1785, Warton was also a literary historian and critic and is listed as having produced the first History of English Poetry. He was a highly regarded scholar. Warton died before he…