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From Shakespeare and Rossetti to Auden, Armitage and Carol An Duffy, Poetry Please: Love is a treasury of the nation's favourite love poems

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BBC Radio 4's Poetry Please is the longest-running broadcast of verse anywhere in the world. First aired in 1979, the programme, a request show which broadcasts to one million listeners a week, has become a unique record of the country's best-loved poems over the decades since its inception.