Poetry
The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock. Audio, 43 minutes
Alan Yentob marks the centenary of TS Eliot's poem, with a reading by Jeremy Irons.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
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The Essay. Why I Write, Hay Festival: Gillian Clarke. Audio, 15 minutes
At the 2015 Hay Festival, Welsh poet laureate Gillian Clarke explains why she writes.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
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Incarnations: India in 50 Lives. Amir Khusro: The Parrot of India. Audio, 15 minutes
Sunil Khilnani profiles the 'Parrot of India' - warrior, poet and Sufi saint Amir Khusro.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
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Incarnations: India in 50 Lives. Basavana: A Voice in the Air. Audio, 15 minutes
Sunil Khilnani on the life of Basavana, radical poet and religious guru.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
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Great Lives. Wendy Cope on John Clare. Audio, 30 minutes
Matthew Parris talks to Wendy Cope about her poetic hero John Clare. From 2015.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
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Between the Ears. Deliverance. Audio, 30 minutes
A new radio poem by Lemn Sissay featuring five women's audio diaries of pregnancy.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
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Between the Ears. The 21-Gun Salute Suit. Audio, 45 minutes
A documentary about one of Britain's most revered performance poets, John Cooper Clarke.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
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The Essay. The Genius of Disability, The Genius of Disability: Al-Ma'arri - Visionary Free Thinker. Audio, 15 minutes
Tom Shakespeare discusses the blind tenth-century Arabian poet Al-Ma'arri.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
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Sunday Feature. Thom Gunn: Appropriate Measures. Audio, 45 minutes
Author Colm Toibin profiles Anglo-American poet Thom Gunn, who died in 2004.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
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Desert Island Discs. John Agard. Audio, 43 minutes
Kirsty Young talks to poet and playwright John Agard.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
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The Why Factor. Poetry. Audio, 18 minutes
Why do we read, or write poetry, as opposed to prose?
- AttributionBBC World Service
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Sunday Feature. New Generation Thinkers, New Generation Thinkers. Audio, 45 minutes
Fern Riddell discusses suffragette Kitty Marion. Plus Gregory Tate on science and poetry.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
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In Praise of Limestone. Audio, 28 minutes
Ian McMillan searches for the limestone landscape that inspired the poet WH Auden.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
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Between the Ears. More than a Desert. Audio, 30 minutes
Poet Kate Tempest with a portrait of the Kent beach where film-maker Derek Jarman lived.
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Open Country. The John Muir Way. Audio, 25 minutes
Helen Mark trails the new John Muir Way to hear how he was inspired by Dunbar's landscapes
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
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The Poet Librettists. Audio, 30 minutes
Michael Symmons Roberts explores why so many poets choose to become opera librettists.
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Betjeman's Banana Blush. Audio, 28 minutes
Jarvis Cocker uncovers an album made by Sir John Betjeman in 1974.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
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The Essay. Minds at War: Series 1, The Broken Wing. Audio, 15 minutes
Santanu Das discusses the Indian poet Sarojini Naidu's 1917 collection The Broken Wing.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
Between the Ears. Music in the Great War: Wilfred Owen - The Soldiers' Poet. Audio, 30 minutes
Soldiers, from corporal to general, choose, read and speak about a poem by Wilfred Owen.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
Between the Ears. How Was Your Day Joe? Audio, 30 minutes
How can Joe, a boy on the autistic spectrum, answer a question teeming with possibilities?
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
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In Our Time. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Audio, 47 minutes
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
The Essay. Dylan Thomas Centenary, Dylan's Bardic Heritage. Audio, 15 minutes
Poet and musician Twm Morys explores links between Dylan Thomas and Wales's poetic past.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
