Poetry
The Essay. The Islamic Golden Age, Lubna of Cordoba. Audio, 15 minutes
Kamila Shamsie discusses Lubna of Cordoba, a female intellectual from the 10th century.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
The Essay. The Islamic Golden Age, Episode 19. Audio, 15 minutes
Narguess Farzad celebrates the much loved 13th-century Persian poet Al-Rumi.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
Between the Ears. Play and Record. Audio, 30 minutes
Poet Paul Farley imagines himself a sound recordist taping the Garden of Eden.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Unavailable
Great Lives. Michael Horovitz on Allen Ginsberg. Audio, 30 minutes
Michael Horovitz nominates fellow poet Allen Ginsberg as his Great Life.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Sunday Feature. Ideas of Germany. Audio, 45 minutes
Anne McElvoy considers how Germans see their country's cultural role.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
Desert Island Discs. Gillian Clarke. Audio, 45 minutes
Kirsty Young talks to poet Gillian Clarke.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
The Essay. The Islamic Golden Age, Rabia Balkhi and Mahsati Ganjavi. Audio, 15 minutes
Narguess Farzad of SOAS discusses Persian poetesses Rabia Balkhi and Mahsati Ganjavi.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
Four Thought. Series 4, Stewart Henderson: Poetry in Politics. Audio, 15 minutes
Stewart Henderson makes the case for putting poetry back in political rhetoric.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Sunday Feature. RS Thomas - Always Seeking Greater Silence. Audio, 1 minute
Jon Gower explores poet RS Thomas's life and work through the prism of birdwatching.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
Sunday Feature. A Brief History of Being Cold. Audio, 45 minutes
Alexandra Harris presents a cultural history of the cold from the Anglo-Saxons to today.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
Sunday Feature. On Napoleon, British Romanticism and Napoleon. Audio, 45 minutes
Simon Bainbridge explores how Napoleon shaped poetry in Britain, especially the Romantics.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
In Our Time. Shahnameh of Ferdowsi. Audio, 42 minutes
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Persian epic poem, the Shahnameh of Ferdowsi.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Great Lives. Jean Cocteau. Audio, 30 minutes
Francesca Simon tells Matthew Parris why Jean Cocteau's is a Great Life.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Sunday Feature. The Dragon with Two Tongues. Audio, 45 minutes
Poet Gwyneth Lewis explores the modern revival of Welsh language.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
Sunday Feature. After the Gold Rush - The Poetry of California. Audio, 45 minutes
Dana Gioia traces developments in Californian poetry since the Beats in the 1950s.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
Great Lives. Juvenal. Audio, 30 minutes
Matthew Parris and his guest Natalie Haynes encounter the Latin poet Juvenal.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Twenty Minutes. The Greatest Poem Never Read. Audio, 20 minutes
Danny Karlin considers Robert Browning's Sordello: is it the best worst poem ever?
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
Meeting Myself Coming Back. Clive James. Audio, 57 minutes
Critic, poet and TV personality Clive James meets his younger self in the sound archives.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Twenty Minutes. The Meaning of Maturity. Audio, 20 minutes
Paul Allen explores the work that inspired Josef Suk's The Ripening.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
Wireless Nights. Series 1, They only come out at night. Audio, 28 minutes
Jarvis Cocker prowls the dark in search of those who only come out at night.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Great Lives. Dylan Thomas. Audio, 30 minutes
Dylan Thomas chosen by Welsh poet Owen Sheers.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Twenty Minutes. Czeslaw Milosz: Poet-Witness. Audio, 20 minutes
Fiona Sampson considers the work of the Nobel Prize-winning Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
