Poetry
- Attribution
- Posted30 October 2018
- Attribution
- 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
- Attribution
- Posted2 October 2018
- Attribution
- Posted2 October 2018
Gyles Brandreth’s Poetry By Heart. Audio, 28 minutes
Gyles Brandreth extols the virtues of of learning poetry by heart.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Gyles Brandreth’s Poetry By Heart. Audio, 28 minutes
Gyles Brandreth extols the virtues of of learning poetry by heart.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
The Radio 3 Documentary. Sunday Feature: A Life in Study: Robert Lowell. Audio, 44 minutes
Colm Toibin profiles the turbulent and brilliant life of American poet Robert Lowell.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted22 September 2018
- Attribution
- Posted20 September 2018
