Poetry
In Our Time. The Nibelungenlied. Audio, 55 minutes
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the medieval German epic The Song of the Nibelungs.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
The Radio 3 Documentary. Briggflatts - A Northern Poetic Odyssey. Audio, 44 minutes
Rory Stewart in search of Basil Bunting’s neglected masterpiece about love, loss and time
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
Sunday Feature. Briggflatts - A Northern Poetic Odyssey. Audio, 44 minutes
Rory Stewart in search of Basil Bunting’s neglected masterpiece about love, loss and time.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
Arts & Ideas. Experimental writing. Audio, 44 minutes
Shahidha Bari, Matthew Herbert, the Goldsmith Prize winners and poet Stephen Sexton
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Sunday Feature. The Most Contrary Region. Audio, 44 minutes
Paul Muldoon on how the arts influenced a century of broadcasting at the BBC in Belfast.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
House, Bridge, Fountain, Gate, Pitcher, Fruit-Tree, Window. Audio, 28 minutes
A radio hymn to the things around us inspired by Rainer Maria Rilke’s Duino Elegies.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted12 November 2022
Hold On Tight: The Women of The Waste Land. Audio, 28 minutes
Journalist Jude Rogers explores the fascinating women in TS Eliot’s poem The Waste Land.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Between the Ears. The Radio of the Future. Audio, 44 minutes
A new radio poem in three voices from Paul Farley, marking the centenary of BBC radio.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
Arts & Ideas. New Thinking: Beowulf. Audio, 31 minutes
Short: How studying grammar and computer games can explain Old English poetry
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
In Our Time. Wilfred Owen. Audio, 57 minutes
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the outstanding poets of the First World War.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
The Documentary Podcast. Recaptive number 11,407. Audio, 28 minutes
Poet Raymond Antrobus traces the lost story of a deaf man freed from slavery
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Xanadu. Audio, 28 minutes
Daljit Nagra explores the world of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's famous poem, Kubla Khan.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted15 October 2022
The Essay. Vaughan Williams: Belonging, Vaughan Williams - Clare Shaw. Audio, 14 minutes
Personal essays on what Vaughan Williams means to five different writers.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
Letters to a Young Woman Poet. Audio, 28 minutes
Poets Gillian Clarke, Penelope Shuttle and Grace Nichols share insights into creativity.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Arts & Ideas. How We Read. Audio, 45 minutes
Our surprisingly complex and mysterious relationship with text explored by Matthew Sweet.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Then or Now. Video, 35 minutes
Will Tuckett explores ideas of home and belonging.
- AttributionBBC Four
- Available for 5 months
The Essay. Double Vision, Alvin Pang. Audio, 14 minutes
Alvin Pang performs an essay recorded at the BBC's Contains Strong Language Festival.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted29 September 2022
The Essay. Double Vision, Anil Pradhan. Audio, 14 minutes
Anil Pradhan performs an essay recorded at the BBC's Contains Strong Language Festival.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
