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Daljit Nagra selects Poetry Please: Shakespeare's Sonnets presented by Roger McGough with new and archive recordings.

Poet Daljit Nagra heard his first Sonnet whilst watching a Carry On film. Living in a house with no books, he was blown away by the language which he had never heard before. This programme explores some of the best known ones written by Shakespeare.

Roger McGough with a selection of Shakespeare's passionate, jealous and lustful sonnets read in new and archive recordings by some favourite Poetry Please actors.

Produced by Sally Heaven.

First broadcast on 麻豆社 Radio 4 in 2015.