Poetry Please

BBC Radio 4

Damien has appeared as the Actor Reader in six episodes of BBC Radio 4’s Poetry Please.

Poetry Please ‘Time, Memory and Remembrance’

24 April 2016

Presenter – Roger McGough
Reader – Damien Molony
Producer – Sally Heaven

Official Programme Info
Roger McGough marks a series of poetic anniversaries with a programme on the theme of time, memory and remembrance. Shakespeare, of course, makes an appearance, as does Charlotte Bronte. It’s also a century since the Easter Rising in Dublin inspired WB Yeats and others to put pen to paper. More reflections on time and memory come from poets including TS Eliot and Thomas Hardy.

Featured poems read by Damien

The Self Unseeing by Thomas Hardy
A Memory by Robert Brooke
Burnt Norton by T.S Eliot
Beyond The Last Lamp by T.S Eliot
The Wayfarer by Padraic Pearse
Extract From The Spring In Ireland 1916 by James Stephens
Easter 1916 by W.B. Yeats

Poetry Please ‘Pot Luck’

25 October 2015

Presenter – Roger McGough
Reader – Damien Molony
Producer – Sally Heaven

Official Programme Info
Roger McGough presents a pot luck of poetry from Byron and Keats to Charles Tomlinson. Producer Sally Heaven.

Featured poems read by Damien

En route by Thomas Blackburn
On the Beach at Fontana by James Joyce

Poetry Please ‘June Miscellany’

21 June 2015

Presenter – Roger McGough
Reader – Damien Molony
Producer – Sally Heaven.

Official Programme Info
Roger McGough with a miscellany of poems about sun, sleep, love and loss. Including poetry by Margaret Atwood, Fleur Adcock, Wislawa Symborska, John Keats and WH Auden. Producer Sally Heaven.

Featured poems read by Damien

The Sunlight on the Garden by Louis MacNeice
Bright Star by John Keats
Lullaby by W.H Auden
To Althea from Prison by Richard Lovelace
True Love by Wislawa Szymborska
Well Water by Edmond Jabes
The Bluebird by Charles Bukowski
Aunt Julia by Norman MacCaig

Poetry Please ‘Bloomsday’

14 June 2015

Presenter – Roger McGough
Reader – Damien Molony
Producer – Sally Heaven.

Official Programme Info
Roger McGough celebrates Bloomsday with poetry by James Joyce and Paul Durcan. The programme also features the usual varied selection of listeners’ requests for poets including Kenneth Slessor, Julia Darling and Fannie Stearns-Gifford.

Featured poems read by Damien

A Flower Given To My Daughter by James Joyce
Alone by Jame Joyce
Dublin by Louis MacNeice
The Night Ride by Kenneth Slessor
Silent Noon by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The Bookmark by Graham Swift
The Goat Paths by James Stephens
Gas From A Burner by James Joyce

Poetry Please ‘Bubble and Squeak’

5 February 2015

Presenter – Roger McGough
Reader – Damien Molony
Producer – Sally Heaven.

Official Programme Info
Roger McGough with something for everyone, from WB Yeats to Elizabeth Barrett Browning
by way of Ted Hughes and Derek Walcott.

Featured poems read by Damien

Sailing to Byzantium by W.B. Yeats

Poetry Please Yeats Special

31 August 2014

Presenter – Roger McGough
Reader – Damien Molony
Interviewed Guest – Roy Foster
Archive Readers – Seamus Heaney, Sinead Cusack, Stephen Rea
Producer – Sally Heaven

Official Programme Info

Roger McGough presents a special programme marking 75 years since the death of WB Yeats.
With Yeats’ biographer Professor Roy Foster, voices from the archive including Seamus Heaney, Sinead Cusack and Steven Rea, and of course some of Yeats’ best-loved poetry. Poems requested by listeners and featured on the programme include He Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven, The Lake Isle of Innisfree and The Second Coming.