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Helen, does poetry play much of a role in your life?
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Helen, does poetry play much of a role in your life?
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I wish I played more.
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I think as you get older, it's one of those things that you feel like if I had spent, if I had more free time, then I would one, watch more a telly.
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And I'd also read more poetry.
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No, because the telly's really good these days.
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You know, like there's amazing, you know, what's it called, Breaking Bad.
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I mean I haven't even seen what was the one with Damien who's an old friend of mine, Homeland.
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I mean there's real great art going on on telly
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and I haven't it's just the concept of a certain age when you've got children.
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I hope that when I retire I will be you know, complimentous enough and be able still be able to see to catch up on all the stuff
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that I feel like oh I want to.
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So but the good thing about poems I will say is that they're short, they can be short.
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So I have lots of, what I do is a lot of surrogate reading by buying.
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So I'll buy I love bookshops and then I'll read a lot in there
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and then I'll feel like I've got to own this book.
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So there was a series that I really liked called Staying Alive.
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Did you remember?
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Yes, I know I did.
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Staying Alive and there was another one called Still Staying Alive.
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I can't remember.
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But those I got into particularly because they were short and for me it does make me whatever...
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It makes me feel better.
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Really a poem.
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Really a poem.
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It just makes me feel better.
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It calms my nerves if I'm nervous or makes me happy if I'm sad.
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it's it's just expresses what you can't necessarily express
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because frankly I'm not a poet you know so I agree sometimes
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if you know them by heart and you're then you'll save them
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when you're wandering around for a walk it does something it lifts you I'll say there's one thing
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that happens that because I know as an actor as an actor you don't really have
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that much skill to impart but I know what happens is
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that because I have to learn lines and if it's poetry
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or if it's Shakespeare it does my soul benefit and there's something about calming the It's like Mozart does the brain, calms the brain, particularly violins.
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But Shakespeare and poetry and poetry that puts a sort of order, it just between the sound and saying it,
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you have to say it out loud to have full benefit, and it becoming part of you as you,
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because I walk around looking like a mad woman around Hampstead Heath saying my lines
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and saying them again and saying them again and saying them again
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but they definitely make um they make me it's a therapeutic
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and deep therapeutic you know benefit um my dad who was
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ill for a long long time was disabled he did
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that thing of learning a poem a day yeah he did amazing yeah maybe he said outset to do
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that maybe it was a poem month but it's a good thing
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but it is and it's like and learning poems and learning pop i I mean, most people will learn a song, which of course is a poem, you know, they'll just pick up a lyric very quickly.
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So what have you chosen for today?
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Well, I thought of this poem because it's a poem that I think has just got a character behind it.
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And I've always loved it.
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It's very famous.
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I've got millions, there are millions of poems I could have chosen.
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It's by Jenny Joseph, so what do you think it's called?
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I don't know any of her poetry.
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Do you not know?
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So I don't hear it.
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When I looked it up, this is apparently the second most popular post-war poem.
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Goodness.
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Well, I probably know the poem, but not the poet.
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Actually, no, no. The most popular.
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1996 surveyed BBC identified as the UK's most popular post-war poem, beating Dylan Thomas's...
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What would that be?
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Banner Milkwood?
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No. Wrong.
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Do not go gentle into the night.
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No, do not, of course.
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Have you seen my glasses?
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This is it.
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Okay, it's about eight.
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It's kind of me, because I already think I wear purple.
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It's called, when I'm an old woman, I shall wear purple.
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You must have, you know it, you do know it.
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I agree though.
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And I've heard it.
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It's called Warning.
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It's called Warning.
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Okay.
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So I'll try and do it justice.
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Can you hear that?
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Please.
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Who you've or shall I?
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Does it really matter?
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No. So this is, okay, so this is by Jen.
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She wrote it quite a long time ago, age 29 in 1932. So about 1960.
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Yeah, you're better at maths.
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Okay.
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When I'm an old woman I shall wear purple.
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This is by Jenny Joseph.
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When I'm an old woman I shall wear purple with a red hat which doesn't go and doesn't suit me.
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And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves and satin sandals and say we've no money for water.
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I shall sit down on the pavement when I'm tired
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and gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells
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and run my stick along the public railings and make up for the sobriety of my youth.
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I shall go out in my slippers in the rain and pick flowers in other people's gardens and learn to spit.
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You can wear terrible shirts and grow more fat
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and eat three pounds of sausages to go or only bread and pickle for a week
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and hoard pens and pencils and beer mats and things in boxes.
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But now we must have clothes that keep us dry
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and pay our rent and not swear in the street and set a good example for the children.
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We must have friends to dinner and read the papers.
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But maybe I ought to practice a little now so people who know me aren't too shocked and surprised
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and suddenly I'm old and start to wear purple.
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I should have, I could read it much better.
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No, no, it's great.
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But it's fine.
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It doesn't have to be read.
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It's a great poem.
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It is a great poem.
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Very funny and very liberating, isn't it?
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It gives you this sense of freedom.
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Freedom, but it also says hang on why are we waiting to retire to have our sense of freedom?
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Why can't just be liberated now?
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And I've definitely believed in that when it comes to my dress sense.
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It's like who gives a whatever.
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Just wear a purple wool hat or do things now because it's aimed at rehearsal.
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And who knows, you might not end up getting to be that old.
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Exactly.
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I think young people think old people are completely different.
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You know, they're like a world apart.
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Yeah.
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They're a foreign country and they would never relate.
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You go like, actually, this old person just wants to have fun.
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Yeah.
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And return to the immaturity of youth. So it's...
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I'm going to read you this one, which is completely inappropriate.
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Read another one, why not?
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This is very short.
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Do you know this one by Adrian Mitchell?
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Probably not.
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This is my daughter.
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This is The End. by A.
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A. Milne.
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Is that alright?
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Yeah.
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So this is my daughter and this is by A.
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A. Milne, The End.
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When I was one, I had just begun.
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And when I was two, I was nearly new.
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And when I was three, I was hardly me.
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When I was four, I was not much more.
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When I was five, I was just alive.
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but now I am six I'm as clever as clever
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so I think I'll be six now forever and ever she's six
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so lovely that yeah really wonderful that she's gonna be 17
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so this is one
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that I like this by angel um Adrian Mitchell I can't
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read today it's called Celia Celia do you know this one no
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when I'm sad and weary When I think all hope is gone.
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When I walk along high hoping, I think of you with nothing on.
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Isn't it sweet?
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Really sweet.
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Isn't it really sweet?
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Well, it depends who you're thinking of.
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