Poetry
In Our Time. Aurora Leigh. Audio, 47 minutes
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Aurora Leigh by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
In Our Time. Rumi's Poetry. Audio, 47 minutes
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the poetry of Rumi (1207-1273).
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Sunday Feature. Crossing the Border - Poetry and Film. Audio, 45 minutes
Matthew Sweet explores the overlooked history of poetry in film.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
Sunday Feature. Freeze: Thaw. Audio, 45 minutes
Hayden Lorimer discusses ice with poets, musicians, explorers, doctors and physicists.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
The Essay. Cornerstones, Northern Lights - Cornerstones: Scandinavia's Samiland. Audio, 15 minutes
Poet John Burnside explores his fascination with the Sami landscapes of northern Norway.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
The Essay. Between the Essays, And Fall. Audio, 14 minutes
Radio producers from around the world offer a series of Between the Ears in miniature.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
The Essay. Between the Essays Retrospective, Episode 1. Audio, 14 minutes
Audio producers from around the world bring a touch of Between the Ears to The Essay.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
The Essay. Between the Essays, Between the Essays: Like Steps of Passing Ghosts. Audio, 15 minutes
Kaitlin Prest explores how we can remain haunted by past loves.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
The Essay. Between the Essays, With Faint Dry Sound. Audio, 14 minutes
Radio producers from around the world offer a series of Between the Ears in miniature.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
Sunday Feature. Ginsberg in India. Audio, 45 minutes
Writer Jeet Thayil retraces beat poet Allen Ginsberg's travels round India in the 1960s.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
Return to Larkinland. Video, 59 minutes
Writer and critic AN Wilson revisits the life and work of poet Philip Larkin.
- AttributionBBC Four
- Available for 5 months
Between the Ears. We Are Writing a Poem about Home. Audio, 30 minutes
A radio poem from Kate Clanchy and the Very Quiet Foreign Girls.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
Scottish Schools 2nd Level. Authors Live Radio, Jackie Kay. Audio, 20 minutes
Janice Forsyth meets Scottish poet Jackie Kay
- AttributionSchool Radio
- Available for over a year
Scottish Schools 1st Level. Authors Live Radio, Jackie Kay. Audio, 15 minutes
Janice Forsyth meets Scottish poet Jackie Kay
- AttributionSchool Radio
- Available for over a year
Pound on Pounds. Audio, 28 minutes
Ira Lightman asks if Ezra Pound and other poets may shed light on the financial crisis.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Desert Island Discs. Imtiaz Dharker. Audio, 45 minutes
Kirsty Young interviews the poet Imtiaz Dharker.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
The Essay. Minds at War: Series 2, Akhmatova's July 1914. Audio, 15 minutes
Sasha Dugdale explores the impact of World War I on the great Russian poet Anna Akhmatova.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
Between the Ears. Bee Journal. Audio, 30 minutes
Poem sequence by Sean Borodale centring on bees and the hive. With the voice of Bellatrix.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
The Essay. WB Yeats at 150, Of Miracle, of Magic. Audio, 15 minutes
Paula Meehan explores the influence of the magical and the mystical in WB Yeats's work.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
The Essay. WB Yeats at 150, The View from the Tower. Audio, 15 minutes
John Banville explains his long-held love for Yeats's 1928 collection of poetry The Tower.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
The Essay. WB Yeats at 150, Not Liking Yeats. Audio, 15 minutes
Writer and commentator Fintan O'Toole on his love-hate relationship with WB Yeats.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
The Essay. WB Yeats at 150, Yeats by Heart. Audio, 15 minutes
Fiona Shaw explains the impact of her childhood introduction to the work of WB Yeats.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
Sunday Feature. WB Yeats and the Artifice of Eternity. Audio, 60 minutes
Theo Dorgan explores the continuing importance of WB Yeats, 150 years after he was born.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year