Roger McGough loves to list the megastars he met in his 60s heyday. This was when he was maintaining parallel careers: one as a poet appearing on learned discussion shows such as BBC2’s Joan ...

From left: humourist John Gorman, poet Roger McGough and Mike McGear (Rex) He argues that children are natural poets and then they have all the poetry ironed out of them. He gives the example of ...

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But I enjoyed Roger's company best of all. Roger McGough will be appearing at the Telegraph Hay Festival on May 27 at 5.30pm and May 28 at 1pm. Matthew Norman returns next week ...

There are few voices more recognisable than McGough’s. His soft Liverpudlian tones have done more to popularise poetry than most of the poet laureates put together. 26 June 2008 • 12:22pm ...

Roger McGough came to fame in the 1960s as one third of the comedy group The Scaffold. In conversation with Sue MacGregor, he reminisces about growing up in Liverpool and describes the ...

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A security guard has written a book, but nobody takes his talent seriously. Stars Norman Beaton and Sylvestre Le Touzel. Show more Ambrose Byron has written a book. He is a security guard in a ...

BACK in the 1960s, Roger McGough wrote a poem called “Let Me ... It was here, too, that he met the Scottish poets: Norman MacCaig, Edwin Morgan, Hamish Henderson. “I always had a great ...

Roger McGough, who has been made a CBE in the Queen's birthday honours, is one of the UK's most revered and popular poets. Born in Litherland, Liverpool, in 1937, the 66-year-old rose to prominence in ...

Dive Into Summer With Radio 4 Extra continues with a Roger McGough double-bill based on his celebrated 1967 poetry collection Summer With Monika, which charts the progress of a love affair from ...

The auditorium was almost full of people of a certain age waiting in anticipation for Roger McGough to appear on stage. This is the generation who grew up listening and reading the works of the ...