Poetry
- 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
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 reworking of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem Christabel.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
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- 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
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- Posted30 August 2020
The Forum. Lal Ded, mystical Kashmiri poet. Audio, 39 minutes
A free-spirited woman whose pithy words challenged social norms
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
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
