Poetry
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- Posted19 July 2018
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The performance poet turning negatives into positives for mental health. The Cultural Frontline. Video, 00:01:18
Poet Yrsa Daley-Ward's memoir The Terrible personifies universal mental health issues
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Posted13 July 2018
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- Posted14 July 2018
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- Posted10 July 2018
Desert Island Discs. Pam Ayres. Audio, 38 minutes
Pam Ayres, poet and broadcaster, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
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The Essay. The Meaning of Beaches, Dover Beach. Audio, 14 minutes
Professor Fiona Stafford explores Dover beach, an emblem of Englishness for millennia.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
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The Radio 3 Documentary. Tony Harrison's Prague Spring. Audio, 44 minutes
How one of Britain's best known poets experienced the drama of the 1960s Prague Spring.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
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Sunday Feature. Tony Harrison's Prague Spring. Audio, 44 minutes
How one of Britain's best-known poets experienced the drama of the 1960s Prague Spring.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
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The Essay. New Generation Thinkers, John Gower, the Forgotten Medieval Poet. Audio, 14 minutes
Curing lovesickness or learning alchemy's secrets. Seb Falk on Chaucer's friend John Gower
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
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Pursuit of Beauty. Virginia Woolf: Impossible Music. Audio, 28 minutes
In search of the musicality and sonic landscape of Virginia Woolf's world.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
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Pursuit of Beauty. Balloon with a View. Audio, 30 minutes
Two poets and a composer take to the skies over Bristol in a balloon full of hot air.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
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The Essay. Kaleidoscope of Muses, Sacred Monsters. Audio, 14 minutes
A personal exploration of writers' unexpected muses - place, people and memories.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
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Pursuit of Beauty. Dancing the Poem. Audio, 30 minutes
Creating dance to poems inspires two choreographers in very different ways.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
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Arts & Ideas. Rowan Williams and Simon Armitage. Audio, 45 minutes
Landscape in poetry discussed by Rowan Williams and Simon Armitage at Hay.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
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Headliners with Nihal Arthanayake. Akala. Audio, 42 minutes
The poet, rapper, and activist talks to Nihal about his new book.
- AttributionBBC Radio 5 Live
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Between the Ears. The Sheep of Art. Audio, 30 minutes
Writer Chris Stewart knows a thing or two about sheep. Alexandra Harris knows art. Baa!
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
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Open Country. Coventry Edgelands. Audio, 25 minutes
Helen Mark visits Coventry to discover its Edgelands, the places in between landscapes.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
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The Essay. New Generation Thinkers at 10, When Shakespeare Travelled with Me. Audio, 14 minutes
New Generation Thinker Islam Issa looks at Shakespeare in 1916 Egypt to Arabic pop songs.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
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Art of Now. Dangerous Places. Audio, 28 minutes
Errollyn Wallen meets artists working in places of conflict and danger around the world.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
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Archive on 4. The Advance Guard of the Avant-garde. Audio, 60 minutes
DJ Taylor tells the story of an influential group of experimental 1960s British writers.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
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Arts & Ideas. What Lies Beneath; Neanderthal Cave Art to Fatbergs. Audio, 45 minutes
Poetic and archaeological trip round our fascination with what comes up when we dig down.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Sunday Feature. Patrick Kavanagh: the Inexhaustible Adventure of a Gravelled Yard. Audio, 44 minutes
Theo Dorgan finds out why Irish poet Patrick Kavanagh, who died in 1968, is so loved now.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
The Essay. All Miss Brodie's Girls, Kate Clanchy. Audio, 14 minutes
Kate Clanchy discusses the work of Muriel Spark - poet.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
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The Essay. Transformations: 5 stories from Ovid's Metamorphoses, Philemon and Baucis. Audio, 15 minutes
The fifth of five dramas about love drawn from tales told in Ovid's Metamorphoses.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
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