poems

A childhood song which was born out of poetry.
More song poems here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/song-poems

Puff The Magic Dragon by Leonard Lipton & Peter Yarrow

Birches by Robert Frost

Auden's reflection on time and the human experience.
POET PLAYLIST LINKS:
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/auden
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/william-blake
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/gillian-clarke
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/e-e-cummings
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/dickinson
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/hsc-t-s-eliot
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/robert-frost
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/thomas-hardy
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/ted-hughes
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/keats
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/philip-larkin
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/william-shakespeare
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/wordsworth
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/w-b-yeats

If I Could Tell You by W.H. Auden

An edition of the eclectic Tom Morton magazine programme, broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland.
Topics: Marriage & Relationships; Anne Frank Remembered; news from South Africa; school cadets; Men's Health magazine; gardening; shirtless on the football terraces.
Producer: Anton Jarvis
Remastered from a cassette recording
Part of this playlist: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/bbc-radio-scotland

Tom Morton (BBC Radio Scotland) 5.02.1997 (complete)

Parts of editions of the eclectic Tom Morton magazine programme, broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland.
Topics: Political oratory discussion; interview with American Comedian, Greg Proops (7.10.1996); mattresses for cows (11.11.1996). 
Producer: Anton Jarvis
Remastered from a cassette recording
Part of this playlist: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/bbc-radio-scotland

Tom Morton (BBC Radio Scotland) 7.10 & 11.11.1996

Parts of editions of the eclectic Tom Morton magazine programme, broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland.
Topics: UK autumn TV schedules; interview with actor Richard Wilson; the Academy of the Over-rated: The X-Files
Producer: Anton Jarvis
Remastered from a cassette recording.
Excerpts from 10.09.1996, 30.09.1996, 20.01.1997
A separate complete edition of the programme here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/tom-morton-radioscotland-5021997

Tom Morton (BBC Radio Scotland) Sept 1996 & Jan 1997

Parts of editions of the eclectic Tom Morton magazine programme, broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland.
Topics: 1914-18 The Great War; war criminals
Producer: Anton Jarvis
Remastered from a cassette recording
Part of this playlist: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/bbc-radio-scotland

Tom Morton (BBC Radio Scotland) 11.11.1996 & 20.01.1996

The entire penultimate edition of the eclectic morning Tom Morton magazine programme, broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland.
Topics: Female celibacy; oats research; Agony Aunt, Irma Kurtz; news from South Africa; Scooby Doo; Scottish accent voice change; Gallop horse riding magazine; Blind Boy Flugga; the Fynesiders barbershop singers.
Producer: Anton Jarvis
Remastered from a cassette recording
Part of this playlist: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/bbc-radio-scotland

Tom Morton (BBC Radio Scotland) 26.03.1997 (complete)

The Oak by Alfred Lord Tennyson

More poems about natural landscapes here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/natural-landscapes

Every by Wendy Cope

Another political poem (about the UK) here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/how-much-i-dislike-the-daily-mail-by-brian-bilston

Pity the Nation by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

A twist on the traditional tale with added drama and grotesqueness.
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/young-poems

Jack and the Beanstalk from 'Revolting Rhymes' by Roald Dahl

Ex-BBC Broadcaster readings of poetry & stories + archive radio/audio features. PLEASE SHARE LINKS with others. 
I’m a self-confessed sound, speech and language nerd.

If I Could Tell You by W.H. Auden

Anton Jarvis

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