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 ...

The most powerful tribute came from poet Roger McGough. who dubbed Innes ‘the urbane spaceman’ before offering a moving and poignant – but never saccharine – reflection on the first and last time they ...

The portrait, titled “Roger Williams: Trailblazer of Religious Freedom,” was painted by local artist Jennifer Gillooly Cahoon.

Touring his Alive and Gigging show, covering the Mersey-soaked sound of his quintessential 60s start, through to tender meditations on fatherhood and family, and on to political sendups, pandemic ...

The poet tells Fiona Sturges about the 60s Liverpool poetry scene, getting advice from Philip Larkin – and appearing on ‘Top of the Pops’ ...

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 ...

Paul McCartney’s younger brother, Mike, who turned the big 8-0 this past January 7, has revealed that his birthday was an eventful one, although perhaps not in the way he would’ve liked. Then ...

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Roger McGough’s take on Molière’s farce is endearingly silly. Edward Hogg and Garmon Rhys in The Hypochondriac at Crucible Theatre, Sheffield.

Roger McGough, ‘a trickster you can trust’, has done more than most to breathe life into poetry. part of the top-selling Mersey Sound with Brian Patten and Adrian Henri, he also had hits with The ...

Roger McGough has had a busy day when Review speaks to him. He’d recorded an episode of Poetry Please, his Radio 4 show which celebrates poetry on various themes, with Michael Morpurgo ‘an old ...