Poetry
What's That About? Video, 00:03:29
Joseph Coelho looks at how poems make you feel and what what they mean to you.
- AttributionBBC
- Posted13 September 2018
Art of Now. Atmosfears. Audio, 28 minutes
Japanese poets create new work in a location marred by a tragic history.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Art of Now. Atmosfears. Audio, 28 minutes
Japanese poets create new work in a location marred by a tragic history.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
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- Posted8 September 2018
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- Posted27 October 2014
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- Posted8 August 2018
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- Posted7 August 2018
Syrian children recite a poem, Home, at the BBC Ten Pieces Prom. Video, 00:00:43
Syrian children recite a poem, Home, at the BBC Ten Pieces Prom
- AttributionBBC
- Posted30 July 2018
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- Posted27 July 2018
Meet Raja Bushra, the Sudanese 'rebel' poet. Newsday. Audio, 00:02:21
She writes poetry to voice women's aspirations in Sudan
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Posted26 July 2018
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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
- Available for over a year
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
- Available for over a year
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
- Available for over a year
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
- Available for over a year
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
- Available for over a year
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
- Available for over a year
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
- Available for over a year
The Essay. Kaleidoscope of Muses, Sacred Monsters. Audio, 14 minutes
A personal exploration of writers' unexpected muses - place, people and memories.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
Pursuit of Beauty. Dancing the Poem. Audio, 30 minutes
Creating dance to poems inspires two choreographers in very different ways.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
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
- Available for over a year
