Poetry
In Our Time. Fernando Pessoa. Audio, 50 minutes
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great Portuguese poet and his many literary personas.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
The Documentary Podcast. Belarus across the barricades - part two. Audio, 27 minutes
Dazzling poet Valzhyna Mort explores a hundred days of protest in Belarus
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Short Cuts. Silent Symphonies. Audio, 28 minutes
Short documentaries with Josie Long listening to what lies beneath the surface.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
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- Posted1 December 2020
Poems at Dusk. Audio, 28 minutes
Poet Theresa Lola explores the relationship between poetry, old age and mortality.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Sunday Feature. The Fake Poet. Audio, 44 minutes
Why does the image of the forlorn and abandoned poet Thomas Chatterton haunt us today?
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
Arts & Ideas. When Shakespeare Travelled with Me. Audio, 13 minutes
Shakespeare from 1916 Egypt to Arabic pop songs.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted18 November 2020
How Do You Cope? …with Elis and John. S2 Michael Rosen 'Hello body, what can you do?' Audio, 66 minutes
Elis and John speak to children's author Michael Rosen about his battle with Coronavirus.
- AttributionBBC Radio 5 Live
- Available for over a year
In the Studio. Sharon Olds: Poetry coming down my arm. Audio, 32 minutes
The Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet discusses how she writes her poetry
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Headliners with Nihal Arthanayake. John Cooper Clarke. Audio, 51 minutes
"The Bard of Salford" on punk, poetry, ambition and his new memoir I Wanna Be Yours.
- AttributionBBC Radio 5 Live
- Available for over a year
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
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- Posted8 October 2020
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- Posted5 October 2020
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- Posted2 October 2020
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- 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 3 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
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- 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
