Poetry

1973: Seamus Heaney. Video, 00:05:36
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BBC
Posted
8 May 2024
Recital of renowned Manx poem released online
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Isle of Man
Posted
5 May 2024
Death of poet at festival accidental - coroner
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Northampton
Posted
30 April 2024
Stroke patients learning poetry to aid recovery
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Bristol
Posted
28 April 2024
Artists challenged to create heritage project
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Cumbria
Posted
28 April 2024
Witness History. Sarah Baartman's 200-year journey back home. Audio, 9 minutes
The campaign to return Sarah Baartman to South Africa nearly 200 years after her death
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BBC World Service
Available for over a year
Sign-language poet honoured with plaque
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Wales
Posted
26 April 2024
1979: Walter McCorrisken, the world's worst poet. Video, 00:08:56
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BBC
Posted
24 April 2024
Why is Taylor Swift singing about Dylan Thomas?
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Wales
Posted
19 April 2024
Sudan War: 'Tell me how to make it stop' Video, 00:03:29
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Africa
Posted
15 April 2024
Poetry on the platforms
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England
Posted
13 April 2024
Woman's abduction inspires prize-winning poem
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Essex
Posted
13 April 2024
KS1/KS2 History: Robert Burns
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BBC Teach
Posted
3 April 2024
Love's Growth. Audio, 28 minutes
Michael Symmons Roberts celebrates John Donne’s great poem of spring, Love’s Growth.
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BBC Radio 4
Available for over a year
Funds to restore archive of famous poet sought
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Dorset
Posted
1 April 2024
Postscript for Alun: The Legacy of Alun Lewis. Audio, 30 minutes
Casi Wyn traces the literary evolution of Welsh poet Alun Lewis.
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BBC Radio Wales
Available for 27 days
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