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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…
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Alfred Austin
B. 1835 D. 1913
Appointed Poet Laureate in 1896, Austin was born in Headingley and was educated at Stonyhurst College, St Mary’s College and at the University of London. His upbringing was Roman Catholic but moved towards agnosticism over time. He trained as a…