Poetry
Danny Boyle: drawing faces of the fallen in the sand on Armistice Day. The Cultural Frontline. Audio, 00:01:48
The British filmmaker commemorating World War One in portraits and poetry
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Posted9 November 2018
Making the Caribbean soldiers of World War One visible through verse. The Cultural Frontline. Audio, 00:01:49
Jamaican poet Tanya Shirley imagines the experiences of Caribbean servicemen
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Posted9 November 2018
A rendition of 'In Flanders Fields' by John McCrae. Julian Clegg. Audio, 00:01:08
Read by BBC Radio Solent listeners and staff.
- AttributionBBC Radio Solent
- Posted9 November 2018
- Attribution
- Posted7 November 2018
The Essay. Minds at War: Series 5, Episode 2. Audio, 14 minutes
The impact of World War One explored through single works of art by great artists.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
An ode to Marfa's mysterious landscape. Video, 00:01:04
An ode to Marfa's mysterious landscape
- AttributionBBC
- Posted12 January 2018
The Essay. A Body of Essays: Series 3, The Blood. Audio, 14 minutes
Poet Kayo Chingoni chooses the blood, and reveals a tragic personal story of HIV AIDS.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted30 October 2018
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- Posted30 October 2018
The Essay. A Body of Essays: Series 3, The Eyes. Audio, 14 minutes
Poet Abi Curtis considers how our eyes both connect us to and alienate us from the world.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
The Essay. A Body of Essays: Series 3, The Liver. Audio, 14 minutes
British Pakistani poet Imtiaz Dharker regards the liver as the true seat of our feelings.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
The Essay. Telegraph Wires - Five Views of Ted Hughes, Ted Hughes and Tenderness. Audio, 14 minutes
Poet Simon Armitage talks about finding an unexpected in tenderness Ted Hughes's work.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
The Essay. Telegraph Wires - Five Views of Ted Hughes, Ted Hughes and the River of Time. Audio, 14 minutes
Poet Zaffar Kunial explores Ted Hughes's personal obsession with dates and anniversaries.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
Multi Story. Episode 3: Love Letters. Audio, 36 minutes
This week: words of love, feat. a disarming poem and a man who's never spoken to his wife
- AttributionBBC Local Radio
- Available for over a year
The Essay. Telegraph Wires - Five Views of Ted Hughes, Crows, Loss and a Violent Melancholia. Audio, 14 minutes
Poet Karen McCarthy Woolf on finding solace in Hughes's work during a troubled childhood.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
The Essay. Telegraph Wires - Five Views of Ted Hughes, Ted Hughes v Philip Larkin. Audio, 14 minutes
Sean O'Brien returns to his native Hull to consider the work of two very different poets.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted22 October 2018
The Essay. Telegraph Wires - Five Views of Ted Hughes, Ted Hughes and Animal Encounters. Audio, 14 minutes
Poet Helen Mort reads Hughes's poems about creatures in light of her own animal phobia.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted12 October 2018
Four Thought. The Last Poets. Audio, 14 minutes
The Last Poets discuss why they're still performing after 50 years.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted5 October 2018
Witness History. Howl: The Poem That Revolutionised US Writing. Audio, 9 minutes
How Allan Ginsberg's reading in San Francisco in 1955 started the "Beat Generation".
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Writing and Performance Poetry Live Lesson. Live Lessons. Video, 00:34:25
Explore poetry with Katie Thistleton and poets Joseph Coelho and Tony Walsh.
- AttributionBBC
- Posted4 October 2018
