{"product_id":"poetry-please","title":"Poetry Please","description":"About the Author\n\nRoger McGough is an award-winning poet and broadcaster. He writes poetry for both adults and children, and presents Radio 4's Poetry Please. He was awarded an OBE for services to poetry in 1997 and a CBE in 2004. He was honoured with the Freedom of the City of Liverpool in 2001.\n\nProduct Description\n\nBBC 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.\n\nThe BBC has looked back through its rich archive of recordings to produce a poll of the most asked for and most broadcast pieces ever: it is those poems that this anthology brings together here. A showcase, in effect, for the nation's favourite verse, Poetry Please is a treasure trove for our most requested and most listened to poems of all time. It is a compelling invitation for readers of all ages and backgrounds to celebrate the verse that we care so much about: from new readers to old, from schools to reading groups, this a book for giving, a book for cherishing.\n\nBook Description\n\nPoetry Please, edited by Roger McGough, is a treasury of the nation's best-loved poems, compiled from the rich archives of BBC Radio 4's Poetry Please programme.","brand":"Faber \u0026 Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40306228199509,"sku":"9780571303298N","price":11.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/products\/00c7be9a-9fa3-46d6-a128-bb35cef04e77.jpg?v=1663142456","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/en-us\/products\/poetry-please","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}