Highlights of my Cabin FM afternoon show on Tuesday 22 October 2024 featuring a TV theme special in the second hour – everything from Howard’s Way and EastEnders to The Golden Girls and The Fall Guy, plus a brilliant poem from Susan Norvill called ‘The Poet’s Dream’. There is also a return to the battle of Eurovision 1970 between Dana and Mary Hopkin, plus reviews of films including ‘Smile 2’ and a look at what was happening on 22 October in history.

The Poet’s Dream

I dreamt last night of Shakespeare

And tragi-comic prose,

Of mice and men and Agnes Grey

And how great minds compose.

My head was all aflutter

With old and new extremes,

And I was winning contests

Though I was dreaming dreams.

I dreamt last night of Milton

And how Paradise was lost,

How Alice found her wonderland,

Yet at what personal cost?

I fought with rhyme and meter

But they just laughed at me,

Their malevolence was frightening

And almost claimed my sanity.

I dreamt last night of Wordsworth

And loneliness sublime,

Of being made the laureate

As he was in his time.

I woke in exultation,

But this soon turned to rage

As I spied my writing table

And another empty page.

Susan Norvill