Cirencester's Own Poetry Please!

I'm having great fun at the moment putting together and recording a programme for Corinium Radio's broadcast for the end of next month. I'm interviewing six people who live or work in the town about their connection to Cirencester and talking to them about their poetic likes and dislikes. At the end of each interview the person is choosing a poem which has a special significance for them to be read on air.

It's been fascinating to talk to a wide variety of people - including a newly arrived resident in a care home, a book shop owner, someone working with young homeless people, a curate, a hospital manager - and to find out about their poetic journeys. Their choices are as varied as their backgrounds, with poems from very different eras and voices.

If you'd like to listen in to the programme, it will air on Sunday Dec. 1st at midday on 87.7FM. If you live outside the broadcast radius, a few days after the live broadcast it will be available on the Corinium Radio website. Hope you enjoy it!