Poetry
Arts & Ideas. Poet Daljit Nagra and crime writer Val McDermid. Audio, 44 minutes
Daljit Nagra and Val McDermid talk about their writing, as part of Durham Book Festival
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted8 October 2020
- Attribution
- Posted5 October 2020
- Attribution
- Posted2 October 2020
- Attribution
- Posted1 October 2020
Arts & Ideas. Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, and Seamus Heaney. Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi. Audio, 46 minutes
How knowledge of poets’ lives shapes how we view their work; Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Drama on 3. Christabel. Audio, 79 minutes
Poet Kate Clanchy's contemporary re-working of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem Christabel
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for 9 months
- Attribution
- Posted26 September 2020
Pause For Thought: 'Those 15 years inspired much of my life.' Pause For Thought. Audio, 00:03:14
Iftikhar Awan looks back on precious time spent with his father.
- AttributionBBC Radio 2
- Posted21 September 2020
The Essay. Five Kinds of Beethoven, Inua Ellams. Audio, 14 minutes
Inua Ellams, poet and playwright, shares what Beethoven means to him.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted18 September 2020
Short Cuts. Tomorrow. Audio, 28 minutes
Short documentaries about our visions of the future with Josie Long.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted30 August 2020
An A-Z of living through tough times. BBC Ideas. Video, 00:02:38
Spoken word poet Kai-Isiah Jamal shares his experiences of growing up in insecure housing.
- AttributionBBC
- Posted19 February 2020
'Climate change need not become the legacy we leave' BBC Ideas. Video, 00:02:59
For BBC Ideas, some reflections on climate change in the form of spoken word poetry
- AttributionBBC
- Posted13 March 2019
Between the Ears. Shifts. Audio, 30 minutes
Poetry, testimony and interviews inspired by the experiences of nurses during lockdown.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted15 August 2020
- Attribution
- Posted4 August 2020
- Attribution
- Posted31 July 2020
Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4. Summer Comedy Festival - Jo Brand. Audio, 29 minutes
Jo Brand curates a poetry festival, hosting a line-up of her favourite performers.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for 8 months
Linton Kwesi Johnson: The poetry that changed me. The Cultural Frontline. Audio, 00:03:12
The poet Linton Kwesi Johnson on Poems of Succession by Martin Carter
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Posted20 July 2020
- Attribution
- Posted9 July 2020
Archive on 4. Poetry For Sale? Audio, 57 minutes
Poet and copywriter Rishi Dastidar on the relationship between poetry and advertising.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
