Poetry
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.
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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.
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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.
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Pursuit of Beauty. Dancing the Poem. Audio, 30 minutes
Creating dance to poems inspires two choreographers in very different ways.
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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.
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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!
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Open Country. Coventry Edgelands. Audio, 25 minutes
Helen Mark visits Coventry to discover its Edgelands, the places in between landscapes.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The Essay. All Miss Brodie's Girls, Kate Clanchy. Audio, 14 minutes
Kate Clanchy discusses the work of Muriel Spark - poet.
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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.
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The Essay. Transformations: 5 stories from Ovid's Metamorphoses, Byblis and Cannus. Audio, 15 minutes
The fourth of five dramas about love drawn from tales told in Ovid's Metamorphoses.
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The Essay. Transformations: 5 stories from Ovid's Metamorphoses, Orpheus and Eurydice. Audio, 15 minutes
The third of five dramas about love drawn from tales told in Ovid's Metamorphoses.
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The Essay. Transformations: 5 stories from Ovid's Metamorphoses, Pygmalion. Audio, 15 minutes
The second of five dramas about love drawn from tales told in Ovid's Metamorphoses.
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The Essay. Transformations: 5 stories from Ovid's Metamorphoses, Ceyx and Alcyone. Audio, 15 minutes
The first of five stories about love dramatized from tales told in Ovid's Metamorphoses.
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In the Studio. Lorna Goodison: Jamaica's history in poetry. Audio, 30 minutes
Documenting the history of slavery and the cultivation of sugar
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The Essay. More Letters to Writers, Dear Marianne ... Audio, 14 minutes
Ian Sansom writes to poet Marianne Moore to finally ask her about that tricorn hat
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The Essay. Dear Marianne Moore. Audio, 14 minutes
Ian Sansom writes to poet Marianne Moore and asks her about that tricorn hat
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