Poetry
The Essay. An Ode to John Keats, Sasha Dugdale on Ode to a Nightingale. Audio, 14 minutes
John Keats's stunningly fertile year - 1819 - celebrated by five contemporary poets
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
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Blood on the Tracks. Michaela Coel, Benjamin Zephaniah, Bez from Happy Mondays, Mike Bubbins. Audio, 85 minutes
Benjamin Zephaniah, Bez from Happy Mondays, Michaela Coel and Mike Bubbins get dancing.
- AttributionBBC Sounds
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The Essay. An Ode to John Keats, Frances Leviston on Ode to Autumn. Audio, 14 minutes
Frances Leviston celebrates perhaps Keats's Ode to Autumn.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
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- Posted8 January 2019
The Essay. An Ode to John Keats, Sean O'Brien on Ode on Melancholy. Audio, 14 minutes
Sean O'Brien explores the depth and meaning of Keats's Ode on Melancholy,
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
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The Essay. An Ode to John Keats, Alice Oswald on Keats's Ode on a Grecian Urn. Audio, 14 minutes
Alice Oswald explores Keats's great poem, Ode on a Grecian Urn.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
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Sunday Feature. Keats Goes North. Audio, 44 minutes
Fiona Stafford follows John Keats’s epic 1818 walk, which inspired his greatest poetry.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
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- Posted29 December 2018
There Was A Young Fellow Named Palin. Audio, 28 minutes
Michael Palin asks James Peak to write him some limericks. What could possibly go wrong?
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
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- Posted27 December 2018
The Essay. The Beowulf Bard. Audio, 16 minutes
The late Seamus Heaney's exploration of the great bard of the Anglo-Saxon epic, Beowulf.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
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- Posted21 December 2018
Science Stories. Lucretius, Sheep and Atoms. Audio, 28 minutes
Naomi Alderman's story is of Lucretius, sheep and atoms
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
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Between the Ears. The In-Between Land. Audio, 29 minutes
The magical North Pennines landscape of deaf shepherd-poet Josephine Dickinson
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
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- Posted13 December 2018
Arts & Ideas. Linton Kwesi Johnson. Audio, 45 minutes
The reggae poet and recording artist talks politics religion and writing with Philip Dodd
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
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- Posted30 November 2018
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- Posted28 November 2018
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- Posted27 November 2018
Pursuit of Beauty. In Emily Dickinson’s Bedroom. Audio, 28 minutes
Cheryl Strayed, Ocean Vuong and Sharon Olds spend some time in Emily Dickinson's bedroom
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
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Between the Ears. The Milk Way. Audio, 29 minutes
A radiophonic poem following the flow of milk east out of Wales while the land flows west.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
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- Posted23 November 2018
Blood on the Tracks. Scroobius Pip, Clare Bowen, Mark Steel, and James Haskell. Audio, 81 minutes
Greatest Australian track, a lyric that is so poetic it doesn’t need music and more.
- AttributionBBC Sounds
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'If' by Colin Moody. Upload with Adam Crowther. Audio, 00:02:15
What's it mean to be a modern Bristol man? Colin Moody reworks 'If' by Rudyard Kipling
- AttributionBBC Radio Bristol
- Posted21 November 2018
