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With Great Pleasure --- 1992

Celebrities personally select over 50 well loved pieces of poetry and prose from the popular Radio 4 programme.

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David Bellamy

Swallows And Amazons

Naturalist On The Amazon

The Courtship Of Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo

What? On Earth

Anonymous Competition Entry From Girl Of Ten, And Letter From Her Mother

Alan Bennett

Fetching Cows

Diary Of A Nobody

Beginning Again: An Autobiography Of The Years 1911-1918

The Whitsun Weddings

John Betjeman

Her Second Husband Hears Her Story

A Shropshire Lad

Eight O'Clock

The Thirty-Ninth Rose

Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour

Celia Johnson

A Smuggler's Song

Tregardock

The Old Ships

Future Work

Extract From A Jane Austen Letter

The Lord Said Unto Noah

Lord Denning

Abou Ben Adhem

Trial Of Warren Hastings

Home Thoughts From Abroad

The Soldier

Lord Lichfield

Lord Lundy

England, Their England

The Log Of The Centurion

Death Is Nothing At All

Brian Johnston

The Walrus And The Carpenter

The Hound Of The Baskervilles

The Selfish Giant

Extract From The Close Of Play

Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies

The Kingdom Of God

Merchant Of Venice

These I Have Loved

Seven Pillars Of Wisdom

Michael Hordern

There Was A Young Man From The Tyne

Mr Theodore Castwell

What Shall We Tell Caroline?

Epilogue To The Tempest

Mary O'Hara

The Wind In The Willows

Letter To The President Of The United States In 1885

In God's Underground

The Pole Star

And Were You Pleased?

John Timpson

Extract From Richard III

Extract From Pickwick Papers

Blame The Vicar

An Old English Nun's Prayer

The Love That I Have Or Code Poem From For The French Resistance

Ian Wallace

Excerpt From Treasure Island

My Last Duchess

A Red, Red Rose

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Slow Train

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By Kyle Larson