pt. 1 : Mystery -- Library / Valerie Worth -- The word party / Richard Edwards -- Whatif / Shel Silverstein -- What's what / Alastair Reid -- The boyhood of Dracula / Gareth Owen -- Not my day / Russell Hoban -- The pancake collector / Jack Prelutsky -- The frog prince / Phoebe Hesketh -- Alice and the frog / Brian Morse -- A spell for midnight / Hal Summers -- Spell against sorrow / Kathleen Raine -- The listeners / Walter de la Mare -- Welsh incident / Robert Graves -- Dialogue between ghost and priest / Sylvia Plath -- Mary Celeste / Judith Nicholls -- Great black-backed gulls / John Heath-Stubbs -- They call to one another / George Barker -- Everyone sang / Siegfried Sassoon.

pt. 2 : Animals -- The animals' arrival / Elizabeth Jennings -- The tickle rhyme / Ian Serraillier -- The example / W.H. Davies -- Considering the snail / Thom Gunn -- The sloth / Theodore Roethke -- Something told the wild geese / Rachel Field -- Don't call alligator long-mouth till you cross river / John Agard -- Trophy / Gillian Clarke -- We are going to see the rabbit / Alan Brownjohn -- Song of the battery hen / Edwin Brock -- The snare / James Stephens -- Cat's funeral / E.V. Rieu -- The thought-fox / Ted Hughes -- Dog body and cat mind / Jenny Joseph -- Poem / William Carlos Williams -- Horses on the Camargue / Roy Campbell -- Horses / Edwin Muir -- The donkey / G.K. Chesterton -- Fetching cows / Norman MacCaig -- The flower-fed buffaloes / Vachel Lindsay -- Caring for animals / Jon Silkin.

pt. 3 : Childhood -- For a five-year-old / Fleur Adcock -- It was long ago / Eleanor Farjeon -- The game of life / Roy Fuller -- When I was christened / David McCord -- Adventures of Isabel / Ogden Nash -- Father says / Michael Rosen -- Playgrounds / Berlie Doherty -- Where's everybody? / Allan Ahlberg -- Truth / Barrie Wade -- Car wash / Jackie Kay -- The tunnel / Brian Lee -- Tich Miller / Wendy Cope -- Televised / Maya Angelou -- The shoes / John Mole -- Into my heart / A.E. Housman -- Fern Hill / Dylan Thomas -- By St. Thomas water / Charles Causley -- I wish I were ... / Rabindranath Tagore -- Lost days / Stephen Spender -- A child's calendar / George Mackay Brown -- Revelation / Liz Lochhead -- Unrecorded speech / Anna Adams -- A recollection / Frances Cornford -- The lesson / Edward Lucie-Smith -- Follower / Seamus Heaney -- The icing hand / Tony Harrison -- Piano / D.H. Lawrence -- About friends / Brian Jones -- Legend / Judith Wright -- Walking away / C. Day Lewis.

pt. 4 : People -- The leader / Roger McGough -- The first men on Mercury / Edwin Morgan -- Resurrected / Matthew Sweeney -- Pitying heaven / Michael Baldwin -- About his person / Simon Armitage -- Men of Terry Street / Douglas Dunn -- Every day in every way / Kit Wright -- The embankment / T.E. Hulme -- The man on the desert island / Gerda Mayer -- Not waving but drowning / Stevie Smith -- Why Brownlee left / Paul Muldoon -- Hunger / Laurence Binyon -- O what is that sound / W.H. Auden -- Evans / R.S. Thomas -- Not my best side / U.A. Fanthorpe -- Old woman / Iain Crichton Smith -- Sensitive, seldom, and sad / Mervyn Peake -- The doomed spaceman / Ted Walker -- A Martian sends a postcard home / Craig Raine.

pt. 5 : Scenes -- For the record / Libby Houston -- in Just-spring / e.e. cummings -- April rain song / Langston Hughes -- 'There will come soft rains' / Sara Teasdale -- Day of these days / Laurie Lee -- Midsummer, Tobago / Derek Walcott -- Hard frost / Andrew Young -- The midnight skaters / Edmund Blunden -- Fog / Carl Sandburg -- The more it snows / A.A. Milne -- On a night of snow / Elizabeth Coatsworth -- London snow / Robert Bridges -- When skies are low and days are dark / N.M. Bodecker -- The side way back / Philip Gross -- Southbound on the freeway / May Swenson -- The day the world ended / George MacBeth -- Preludes / T.S. Eliot -- Encounter at St Martin's / Ken Smith -- Shadows / Zaro Weil -- Mending wall / Robert Frost -- Wall / Norman Nicholson -- The old ships / James Elroy Flecker -- Posted / John Masefield -- The sea / James Reeves -- Look, no hands / James Berry.

pt. 6 : War -- Drummer Hodge / Thomas Hardy -- Abbey tomb / Patricia Beer -- The soldier / Rupert Brooke -- Newscast / Ian Hamilton -- My boy Jack / Rudyard Kipling -- As the team's head-brass / Edward Thomas -- Anthem for doomed youth / Wilfred Owen -- Naming of parts / Henry Reed -- Vergissmeinnicht / Keith Douglas -- Your attention please / Peter Porter -- No more Hiroshimas / James Kirkup -- Fifteen million plastic bags / Adrian Mitchell -- In the desert knowing nothing / Helen Dunmore -- Carriers in the Gulf / Alan Ross -- A poem about poems about Vietnam / Jon Stallworthy -- Tiananmen / James Fenton -- The sunlight on the garden / Louis MacNeice.

pt. 7 : Love -- I so like spring / Charlotte Mew -- The river-merchant's wife : a letter / Ezra Pound -- Like a flame / Grace Nichols -- First love / Brian Patten -- Lipservice / Max Fatchen -- Love poem / Mick Gowar -- Any prince to any princess / Adrian Henri -- A subaltern's love-song / John Betjeman -- Tarantella / Hilaire Belloc -- Water / Robert Lowell -- No sense of direction / Vernon Scannell -- Valentine / Carol Ann Duffy -- The highwayman / Alfred Noyes -- An Arundel tomb / Philip Larken -- He wishes for the cloths of heaven / W.B. Yeats -- Sometimes / Sheenagh Pugh.