| # | Title | Artist | Rating | Length |
|---|
| 1 | Sonnet 18 | William Shakespeare read by Hugh Grant | | 1:03 |
| 2 | The Flea | John Donne read by Dale Winton | | 1:25 |
| 3 | To Celia | Ben Jonson read by Patricia Hodge | | 0:55 |
| 4 | Paradise Lost (excerpt) | John Milton read by Julian Glover | | 3:16 |
| 5 | The Tyger | William Blake read by Julian Glover | | 1:16 |
| 6 | Daffodils | William Wordsworth read by Jeremy Irons | | 1:01 |
| 7 | Kubla Khan | Samuel Taylor Coleridge read by Dale Winton | | 2:20 |
| 8 | She Walks in Beauty | George Gordon Noel Byron read by Greg Wise | | 1:04 |
| 9 | To Autumn | John Keats read by Neil Conrich | | 1:53 |
| 10 | Past and Present | Thomas Hood read by Paula Wilcox | | 1:30 |
| 11 | How Do I Love Thee? | Elizabeth Barrett Browning read by Isla Blair | | 1:05 |
| 12 | Ulysees (excerpt) | Alfred Tennyson read by Crispin Bonham-Carter | | 0:56 |
| 13 | Home-Thoughts, From Abroad | Robert Browning read by Jamie Glover | | 1:12 |
| 14 | Remembrance | Emily Brontë read by Patricia Hodge | | 2:18 |
| 15 | The Owl and the Pussycat | Edward Lear read by Leslie Phillips | | 1:45 |
| 16 | Longing | Matthew Arnold read by Timothy Dalton | | 0:58 |
| 17 | A Birthday | Christina Rossetti read by Imelda Staunton | | 0:55 |
| 18 | If | Rudyard Kipling read by Richard Briers | | 1:40 |
| 19 | The Ballad of Reading Gaol (excerpt) | Oscar Wilde read by Joss Ackland | | 2:39 |
| 20 | Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven | William Butler Yeats read by Greg Wise | | 0:37 |
| 21 | The Listeners | Walter de la Mare read by Alex Jennings | | 2:02 |
| 22 | The Highwayman | Alfred Noyes read by Joss Ackland | | 6:10 |
| 23 | Glory of Women | Siegfried Sassoon read by Samuel West | | 0:56 |
| 24 | The Soldier | Rupert Brooke read by Samuel West | | 1:17 |
| 25 | Dulce et decorum est | Wilfred Owen read by Brian Blessed | | 1:56 |
| 26 | Not to Sleep | Robert Graves read by Julian Glover | | 1:09 |
| 27 | Not Waving but Drowning | Stevie Smith read by Paula Wilcox | | 0:56 |
| 28 | Walking Away | C. Day-Lewis read by Isla Blair | | 1:22 |
| 29 | How to Get on in Society | John Betjeman read by Crispin Bonham-Carter | | 0:58 |
| 30 | Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night | Dylan Thomas read by Brian Blessed | | 1:22 |
| 31 | Hawk Roosting | Ted Hughes read by Neil Conrich | | 1:19 |
| 32 | Wedding Day | Seamus Heaney read by Alex Jennings | | 0:49 |