Poetry
The Essay. Double Vision, Tishani Doshi. Audio, 14 minutes
Tishani Doshi performs an essay recorded at the BBC's Contains Strong Language Festival.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted20 September 2022
Imagiste. Audio, 28 minutes
Jean Sprackland explores the subversive beauty of female Imagist poets H.D. and Amy Lowell
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Between the Ears. California Burning. Audio, 29 minutes
High above the giant sequoias, poet Kim Addonizio shadows Jack Kerouac as a fire watcher.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
Contains Strong Language Live from Birmingham. Audio, 28 minutes
Selections of poetry from the Contains Strong Language festival in Birmingham
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted16 September 2022
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- Posted15 September 2022
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- Posted12 September 2022
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- Posted7 September 2022
Great Lives. Romy Gill on poet Amrita Pritam. Audio, 28 minutes
Chef Romy Gill celebrates a poet whose work was heavily influenced by Partition.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Bookclub. Kathleen Jamie: Selected Poems. Audio, 28 minutes
James Naughtie and a group of readers talk to Scotland's makar, Kathleen Jamie.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Colouring in Britain. Benjamin Zephaniah. Audio, 45 minutes
Tomi Dixon meets the man who changed British poetry forever - Benjamin Zephaniah.
- AttributionBBC Sounds
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted20 August 2022
Headliners with Nihal Arthanayake. George the Poet. Audio, 40 minutes
The spoken word performer on his brand of musical poetry.
- AttributionBBC Radio 5 Live
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted26 July 2022
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- Posted19 July 2022
- Attribution
- Posted17 July 2022
Lives Less Ordinary. A poet in a Burundi war zone, part 2. Audio, 34 minutes
JP Bimeni is a writer turned soul singer who walked through a massacre unscathed
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Lives Less Ordinary. A poet in a Burundi war zone, part 1. Audio, 37 minutes
JP Bimeni risked his life to save a book of his verse
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
The Essay. Larkin and Believing, Going. Audio, 14 minutes
Helen Mort explores questions of faith and belief in response to Larkin's poem 'Going'
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
The Essay. Larkin and Believing, Ambulances. Audio, 14 minutes
Vidyan Ravinthiran explores questions of belief in response to Larkin's poem 'Ambulances'.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
The Essay. Larkin and Believing, Water. Audio, 14 minutes
Jean Sprackland explores her own faith in response to Philip Larkin's poem 'Water'.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
The Susurrations of the Sea. Audio, 28 minutes
The sounds of the sea, the words of people who listen to them, and new poetry.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
The Essay. Larkin and Believing, Absences. Audio, 14 minutes
Sinead Morrissey explores questions of faith in response to Larkin's poem 'Absences'
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
