Poetry
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 4 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
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
- Available for over a year
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
- Available for over a year
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
- Available for over a year
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
- Available for over a year
