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Poetry Please: Benjamin Zephaniah

Series 1, episode 1

Rough McGough is joined by Benjamin Zephaniah, who shares poems from listener requests by John Clare, Percy Bysshe Shelley and Spike Milligan; as well as a poem new to Roger, by the Chinese scholar Zhimo Xu written about Cambridge, newer works by Mary Jean Chan and Joelle Taylor, and one of Benjamin's own about his love of hedgehogs.

Cast (unconfirmed)

Roger McGough
Benjamin Zephaniah