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A dramatisation of Christopher Reid's narrative poem, telling the story of a book editor who, 15 years after their break-up, meets his former love for a nostalgic lunch at the Soho restaurant they used to frequent. As the wine flows, the couple rake over their failed relationship. View Programme information Credits Role Contributor He Alan Rickman She Emma Thompson Waiter Andi Soric Waitress Siubhan Harrison Massimo Joseph Long Noisy Boy Jamie Baughan Noisy Boy David Hayler Debauched Publishing Type James Richard Marshall Producer Pier Wilkie Director Niall MacCormick Author Christopher Reid A Review of this from The Guardian -- The Song of Lunch A dramatised narrative poem might sound a bit dull but this one with Alan Rickman and Emma Thompson was wonderful THE SONG OF LUNCH Let's not do lunch … Alan Rickman and Emma Thompson. Photograph: BBC By Lucy Mangan @LucyMangan Friday 8 October 2010 17.31 EDT There are cert

" One Today " -- by Richard Blanco One sun rose on us today, kindled over our shores, peeking over the Smokies, greeting the faces of the Great Lakes, spreading a simple truth across the Great Plains, then charging across the Rockies. One light, waking up rooftops, under each one, a story told by our silent gestures moving behind windows. My face, your face, millions of faces in morning’s mirrors, each one yawning to life, crescendoing into our day: pencil-yellow school buses, the rhythm of traffic lights, fruit stands: apples, limes, and oranges arrayed like rainbows begging our praise. Silver trucks heavy with oil or paper -- bricks or milk, teeming over highways alongside us, on our way to clean tables, read ledgers, or save lives -- to teach geometry, or ring up groceries as my mother did for twenty years, so I could write this poem. All of us as vital as the one light we move through, the same light on blackboards with lessons for the day: equatio