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Damien will be back on Radio 4 at the end of this month, reading Yeats poetry for Poetry Please.

Poetry Please is a weekly radio programme where actors read poems that have been requested by the listeners.

Programme producer Sally Heaven tweeted this morning:

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So it is Yeats not Keats for Mr Radio 4 this time!

(and if you have no idea what that means, you need to re-watch Being Human Series 4!)

Cannot wait!



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Excellent news! 



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It so is fifi!

Poetry Please is such a prestigious show, practically a national treasure at 35 years old!

As we have discussed many times before here at the forum, Damien has the perfect voice for radio, and has given many readings for WordTheatre including poetry and it seems perfect that he will be reading an Irish poet.

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Looking forward to this. Always a pleasure to hear those dulcet tones.

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Irish poetry.  Le Sigh. ooohbaby

 



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Oh, I wish someone will upload this to youtube or something, so I can enjoy this too!aww

 



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JozieMozie wrote:

Oh, I wish someone will upload this to youtube or something, so I can enjoy this too!aww

 

 I'm sure someone will take pity... wink



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Jozie (and all international fans) BBC iplayer radio is usually available to listen outside of the UK, unless there are rights issues. So you will be able to listen live and on catchup!

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August is turning out to be a great month for Damien Molony fans, Suspects returns on the 20th and Damien back on the radio 31st!

Just a reminder to fans outside the UK that this radio programme will be available internationally to listen live and on catch up on the BBC Radio iplayer!



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I am really looking forward to hearing Damien read poetry!



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Can't wait Rosie! molonyeffect

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Looking forward to the Molony effect taking effect!

Also excited that I have become a 'Molonian' now!

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RPLovesIpswich wrote:

Looking forward to the Molony effect taking effect!

Also excited that I have become a 'Molonian' now!

 congratulations Rosie! and thank you for all your posts grouphug



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RPLovesIpswich wrote:

Looking forward to the Molony effect taking effect!

Also excited that I have become a 'Molonian' now!

  congrats Rosie for becoming Molonian!

 

I really hope I will be able to hear this.. Just thinking about his voice on radio reading softly *swoon*thud



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The Poetry Please episode Damien will appear in is a special programme marking 75 years since the death of WB Yeats

 Sunday 31 August 4.30 - 5pm UK time, but unlike TV, Radio progs should also be available on BBC iplayer both LIVE and on catchup, internationally. 

 

Poetry Please | 31 August | BBC Radio 4 Publicity

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Thanks for your congratulations domino and Jozie! It's just great to find a forum where everyone is so lovely.

I really hope that Damien reads The Lake Isle of Innisfree. It's such a beautiful evocative poem.

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Thanks for your congratulations domino and Jozie! It's just great to find a forum where everyone is so lovely.

I really hope that Damien reads The Lake Isle of Innisfree. It's such a beautiful evocative poem.

aw I am happy you feel happy here Rosie, I have to agree, the forum family is small but beautiful. grouphug 

The Lake Isle of Innisfree is on the list of poems being read in the Yeats programme.. and deserves to be read by a dulcet toned Irishman!



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The following WB Yeats poems will be read in the Poetry Please programme, hopefully all by Damien!



 

He Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven

HAD I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams

 

 

The Lake Isle Of Innisfree

I WILL arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made:
Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee,
And live alone in the bee-loud glade.

And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,
Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;
There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,
And evening full of the linnet's wings.

I will arise and go now, for always night and day
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey,
I hear it in the deep heart's core.

 

 

The Second Coming

TURNING and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? 



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Only 4 days until the dulcet tones of our favourite actor will hit the airwaves!

Poetry Please have confirmed Damien will be reading this Sunday and that they will add his name tot he programme credits.


Thanks for contacting Poetry Please with your query. 

I am pleased to confirm that Damien is indeed the actor who will be reading many of the poems in the episode of Poetry Please to be broadcast on 31st August 2014 (this Sunday). 

The programme is a WB Yeats special. Hope you enjoy it! We will add Damien to the web credits today:http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04fyf2q 

Best wishes
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Here is the list of poems being read on the show

 

This Week's Poems

 

Song of the Old Mother

By W.B Yeats

From The Collected Poems of W.B Yeats

Published by Macmillan

 

Song of Wandering Aengus

By W.B Yeats

Taken from the CD ‘Now and In Time to Be’ by Christy Moore

Label: Grapevine Label

 

He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven

By W. B Yeats

From W.B Yeats – Poems Selected by Seamus Heaney

Published by Faber

 

The Lake Isle of Innisfree

By W.B Yeats

From W.B Yeats – Poems Selected by Seamus Heaney

Published by Faber

 

The Host of the Air

By W.B Yeats

From W.B Yeats – Poems Selected by Seamus Heaney

Published by Faber

 

Easter 1916

By W.B Yeats

From W.B Yeats – Poems Selected by Seamus Heaney

Published by Faber

 

An Irish Airman Forsees His Death

By W.B Yeats

From W.B Yeats – Poems Selected by Seamus Heaney

Published by Faber

 

The Second Coming

By W.B Yeats

From W.B Yeats – Poems Selected by Seamus Heaney

Published by Faber

 

Long-Legged Fly

By W.B Yeats

From W.B Yeats – Poems Selected by Seamus Heaney

Published by Faber

 

The Wild Swans at Coole

By W.B Yeats

From W.B Yeats – Poems Selected by Seamus Heaney

Published by Faber

 

Extract from Under Ben Bulben

By W.B Yeats

From W.B Yeats – Poems Selected by Seamus Heaney

Published by Faber

 

 

 



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Thanks for the info, domino.  Now that Suspects has finished it's good to have some more Damien to look forward to....and its only 3 days away!

They still haven't updated the website, tho.....  Is it just me or does it seem like there is some sort of conspiracy against Damien getting any publicity/credit for his work?!

 

 



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Yes, there is most definitely a conspiracy against Damien getting all the recognition he deserves and it's infuriating!!!  Thank goodness for our domino working so hard to set things straight!

So it looks like the bit of Yeats that I'd hoped he would read is not included. hmm  But I'm sure it will all be so lovely with him reading.  Cannot wait for that gorgeous Irish lilt reading gorgeous Irish poetry!

Oh, btw, not sure if this is the place to mention it - Dan O'Brien will be doing a reading online the same day as Damien's reading airs, at noon time Pacific, which is 8pm UK time:  https://plus.google.com/events/cp41cigrkrn6p5r82jk73sp9qqg

It's on google plus and I'm not sure how that works, but I thought it a bit of a serendipitous coincidence that it's the same day.  It's poetry day!  Plus you can submit questions for Dan ahead of time and they will be answering after the readings.  Anyone have a question about The Body of an American still burning in the backs of their minds?



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2 days until Damien's Irish lilt graces the airwaves!

I have enquired again about adding his name to the credits.

Thank you for the info about Dan O'Brien's reading whimsy, what a fab bit of synchronicity! Might be a good idea to add something to the TBOAA topic about the fan questions?

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Ahem...

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