Poetry
- Attribution
- Posted22 June 2019
- Attribution
- Posted21 June 2019
Joy Harjo named first Native American US poet laureate. Newsday. Audio, 00:06:08
"We're somewhat disappeared from the public American story"
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Posted21 June 2019
- Attribution
- Posted20 June 2019
Headliners with Nihal Arthanayake. Kate Tempest. Audio, 40 minutes
The poet, musician and novelist on her new album and working with Rick Rubin.
- AttributionBBC Radio 5 Live
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted17 June 2019
The Viking’s bloodthirsty Skaldic poetry. The Forum. Audio, 00:01:04
Poems written and performed in honour of Viking rulers like King Cnut
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Posted14 June 2019
- Attribution
- Posted6 June 2019
- Attribution
- Posted3 June 2019
Profile. Simon Armitage. Audio, 14 minutes
Becky Milligan profiles the new poet laureate, Simon Armitage.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Rewinder. One: Donald Trump and the Three Beryls. Audio, 28 minutes
Greg James digs into the BBC's archives, using current stories as a portal to the past.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
The Essay. From the Source, Swimming the Avon. Audio, 14 minutes
Poet Elizabeth-Jane Burnett swims the River Avon in search of inspiration.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
Arts & Ideas. Rivers, different cultures, different values. Audio, 48 minutes
Anthropologist, Poet, Archaeologist and Angler reflect on what a river should be
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted14 May 2019
- Attribution
- Posted13 May 2019
- Attribution
- Posted11 May 2019
- Attribution
- Posted10 May 2019
Slow Radio. The In-Between Land. Audio, 21 minutes
The magical North Pennines landscape of deaf shepherd-poet Josephine Dickinson.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
The Radio 3 Documentary. John Ashbery - Portrait in a Convex Mirror. Audio, 44 minutes
Colm Toibin presents an intimate portrait of the American poet John Ashbery
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted3 May 2019
Witness History. Rupert Brooke. Audio, 9 minutes
The English poet whose death at the start of World War One was mourned by millions
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Arts & Ideas. Landmark: Audre Lorde. Audio, 53 minutes
Jackie Kay & Selina Thompson discuss the influential US writer & civil rights activist
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted18 April 2019