Wendy Cope
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| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Age | 78 |
| Date of birth | July 21,1945 |
| Zodiac sign | Cancer |
| Born | Erith |
| United Kingdom | |
| Spouse | Lachlan Mackinnon |
| Periods | 1980–present |
| Job | Poet |
| Education | University of Oxford |
| St Hilda's College | |
| West Lodge Preparatory School | |
| Sidcup | |
| Chislehurst | |
| Kent | |
| Awards | Cholmondeley Award |
| Michael Braude Award for Light Verse | |
| Notabl award | Cholmondeley Award |
| American Academy of Arts and Letters | |
| Michael Braude Award for Light Verse | |
| Notabl work | Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis; Serious Concerns |
| Date of Reg. | |
| Date of Upd. | |
| ID | 420658 |
Two Cures for Love
Serious concerns
If I don't know
Anecdotal Evidence
The Funny Side
Twiddling Your Thumbs
Life, Love and The Archers: Recollections, Reviews and Other Prose
The river girl
Christmas Poems
Family Values
Going for a Drive
Time for School
The Faber Book of Bedtime Stories
Is that the New Moon? Poems by Women Poets
The Big Orchard Book of Funny Poems
Does She Like Word-games?
Faber Voices: Wendy Cope: (Fixed Format Layout)
Wendy Cope: Reading from Her Poems
Spared: Satb Divisi, Choral Octavo
The Bridport Prize: Poetry and Short Stories, 1995
An International Christmas: Seasonal Stories and Poems from Canada and Around the World
Wendy Cope Life story
Wendy Cope OBE is a contemporary English poet. She read history at St Hilda's College, Oxford. She now lives in Ely, Cambridgeshire, with her husband, the poet Lachlan Mackinnon.
Desert Island Discs 'greatest radio show of all time'
Poet Wendy Cope (right) was host Lauren Laverne 's desert island castaway last month
Desert Island Discs has been named The Greatest radio programme of all time by a panel of industry experts.
The BBC Radio 4 show, which since 1942 has been inviting famous guests to share their favourite musical choices, beat drama The Archers to The Top spot.
Other choices in the Radio Times poll included Wake Up To Wogan, John Peel and Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy .
Many of the 30 programmes on The List are no longer broadcast, with almost a third being comedies or panel shows.
'Genius format'Desert Island Discs is currently presented by Lauren Laverne , who is filling in while Kirsty Young is being treated for fibromyalgia.
The programme invites high-profile guests to choose eight discs, a book and a luxury item to take with them as they are castaway on a mythical desert island.
Top Five greatest radio programmes Desert Island Discs The Archers - the UK's longest running radio drama. Radio comedy Round The Horne (1965-8) Hancock's Half Hour (1954-9) In The Psychiatrist 's Chair (1982-2001)Source: Radio Times poll
Prime ministers and industry leaders have all been castaways, with notable recent guests having included Sir David Attenborough , JK Rowling, Yoko Ono and David Beckham .
Desert Island Discs producer Cathy Drysdale said the accolade was "wonderful", attributing it to an "absolute genius format".
Yoko Ono appeared on the programme in 2007. She chose records both by her late husband John Lennon and son SeanRadio Times editor Mark Frith said the "poll illustrates how memorable and timeless great radio can be".
The List was compiled by 46 industry experts, of which 42 had a professional connection to the BBC.
Terry Wogan 's BBC Radio 2 breakfast show, which ran for More Than 25 years until 2009, was in 12th position, just ahead of John Peel 's late-night BBC Radio 1 programme, on air between 1967 and 2004.
What is Desert Island Discs?
Presenter Kirsty Young quizzed footballer David Beckham for the programme's 75th anniversary in 2017bbc, radio
Source of news: bbc.com
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