Poetry
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Desert Island Discs. Postcards, Maya Angelou on the trauma that made her mute. Audio, 5 minutes
The great American writer Maya Angelou was cast away back in 1987.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for 1 month
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- Posted7 September
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- Posted31 August
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- Posted30 August
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- Posted30 August
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- Posted20 August
Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford. "Genius Still Unrecognised" - The Worst Poet in the World. Audio, 39 minutes
William McGonagall's poems are something else.
- AttributionBBC Sounds
- Available for over a year
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- Posted13 August
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- Posted9 August
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- Posted26 July
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- Posted25 July
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- Posted20 July
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- Posted12 July
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- Posted29 June
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- Posted27 June
Sunday Feature. The February House. Audio, 44 minutes
When a house share in Brooklyn became an epicentre of Western music and literature.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
In Our Time. Barbour's 'Brus' Audio, 49 minutes
How the earliest poem in Older Scots framed the legend of Robert the Bruce at Bannockburn.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
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- Posted18 June
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- Posted7 June
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