Guest:- please use some identity - your views are interesting.
Musket - I'd bet money that was Tony Capstick - he's the first I heard reciting it - late 70's
Meself :- I can't say for sure but I believe it's one show a week (repeated). It has a nice prime spot on Sunday afternoons around 4.00pm
Howard I appreciate your views - and of course you are verging on being correct about my tastes.
I'm not a Radio 2 listener so not in the habit of accidentally stumbling on the programme - as I am usually tuned to Radio 4 . Thereby (maybe) lays thefoundation of some of the ire I have expressed.
I can't understand why some one Writes / Emails "Poetry Please" to get a poem read on air but I can understand someone requesting a song which is difficult to get hold of perhaps because of vinyl etc issues.
I also feel that the readers (professional or not) seem to adopt a holier-than-thou position ,and I don't feel so isolated now, after reading Topsie's comments above.
Finally ,the thought of paying good money to attend a poetry-reading has me absolutely puzzled , do the attendees feel that they place themselves on a higher intellectual or social scale possibly in the way Ballet and Opera wallies do?

Cheers
Betsy