Poetry

Funds to restore archive of famous poet sought
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Dorset
Posted
1 April 2024
Arts & Ideas. New Thinking: Light and Darkness. Audio, 40 minutes
Darkness and how it affects those with dementia, to light in modernist literature
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BBC Radio 4
Available for over a year
Arts & Ideas. Approaches to death. Audio, 45 minutes
Archaeologists Marianne Hem Eriksen, Pauline Harding: historians Cat Byers, Harriet Soper
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BBC Radio 4
Available for over a year
Poet sought to 'celebrate' City of London bridges
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London
Posted
22 March 2024
The Verb. The Claustrophobic Verb. Audio, 44 minutes
Ian McMillan presents Radio 3's cabaret of the word.
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BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
Rudyard Kipling poems to be read at former estate
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Sussex
Posted
21 March 2024
'Rare' unpublished Byron letter sells for £6,000
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Gloucestershire
Posted
20 March 2024
The Documentary Podcast. In the Studio: Colm Tóibín. Audio, 24 minutes
Inside the creative world of the acclaimed author of Brooklyn
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BBC World Service
Available for over a year
Arts & Ideas. Images of Persia. Audio, 45 minutes
Poetry by Hafez, Nowruz (New Year) and the Haft Sin table, the Mongol invasion, music
Attribution
BBC Radio 4
Available for over a year
The Verb. International Women's Day Verb. Audio, 44 minutes
Ian McMillan explores poetry as a tool for women's empowerment.
Attribution
BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
First National Poetry Centre gets £5m cash boost
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Leeds & West Yorkshire
Posted
7 March 2024
Poets' performance showcases city's healthcare past
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Wolverhampton
Posted
5 March 2024
KS3 History: How a love for poetry helped a World War Two soldier through the war
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BBC Teach
Posted
4 March 2024
'Food writing lends itself to erotic poetry'
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Somerset
Posted
3 March 2024
Tube poem archive donated to Cambridge University
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England
Posted
26 February 2024
The Food Programme. The power of poems to connect us to food. Audio, 28 minutes
Farmer's stories through the eyes of poets – can it make us care how our food is grown?
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BBC Radio 4
Available for over a year
KS3 / KS4 / GCSE History: WW1 poetry, shell shock and Siegfried Sassoon
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BBC Teach
Posted
23 February 2024
The Verb. The Cute Verb. Audio, 44 minutes
Ian McMillan presents Radio 3's Cabaret of Cuteness as we examine all things cute.
Attribution
BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
The Conversation. Women documenting climate change in pictures. Audio, 27 minutes
Stories of rising seas, floods and forced migration through photographs, maps and poetry
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BBC World Service
Available for over a year
Drama on 4. Trespass. Audio, 44 minutes
A satirical play about over-population, inherited wealth and a remarkable poetry festival.
Attribution
BBC Radio 4
Available for over a year
Longley: 'If I'm not an Irish poet I'm nothing'
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Northern Ireland
Posted
12 February 2024