Poetry
- Attribution
- Posted22 July 2023
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- Posted19 July 2023
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- Posted17 July 2023
- Attribution
- Posted6 July 2023
Arts & Ideas. New Thinking: Writing the NHS. Audio, 37 minutes
Dr Kim Moore and Dr Kim Wiltshire on how hospital staff have been helped by writing
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
How Do You Cope? …with Elis and John. S4 Lady Unchained: ‘I don’t want somebody to think “Only when I get to prison I can be creative”’ Audio, 91 minutes
Lady Unchained discusses her time in prison and how discovering poetry helped her cope.
- AttributionBBC Radio 5 Live
- Available for over a year
This Cultural Life. Ian McEwan. Audio, 43 minutes
Novelist Ian McEwan reveals the formative influences that have shaped his writing.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted16 June 2023
The Documentary Podcast. In the Studio: Ada Limon. Audio, 28 minutes
The poem that will be sent into space
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
The Essay. Black Country Secrets, Liz Berry on Gorge Road, Sedgley. Audio, 14 minutes
Writers choose a Black Country scene to reveal something of this strangely hidden region.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
Open Book. Leila Slimani, Nii Ayikwei Parkes, Kalaf Epalanga. Audio, 28 minutes
Johny Pitts talks to Leila Slimani about her new novel Watch Us Dance.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Desert Island Discs. Claudia Rankine, poet. Audio, 37 minutes
Claudia Rankine, poet, shares the soundtrack of her life with Lauren Laverne.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted10 June 2023
Between the Ears. Supply Lines. Audio, 29 minutes
Aidan Tulloch reimagines the journey an item goes on in the age of the 24/7 supply chain.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
Open Book. Guy Gunaratne, plus Literary Thefts with Rebecca Kuang and Andrew Lipstein. Audio, 28 minutes
Johny Pitts talks to Guy Gunaratne about their new book Mister, Mister.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Between the Ears. Secrets of the Scottish Rainforest. Audio, 30 minutes
Poet Kathleen Jamie explores a temperate rainforest on the west coast of Scotland.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
Midnight Meets With Colin Murray. Pam Ayres. Audio, 49 minutes
Performance poet and comedian Pam Ayres chats to Colin Murray.
- AttributionBBC Radio 5 Live
- Available for over a year
HARDtalk. Linton Kwesi Johnson: Struggles of the past and present. Audio, 23 minutes
Zeinab Badawi speaks to the Jamaican-born British poet
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted9 May 2023
- Attribution
- Posted9 May 2023
The Essay. We Other Tudors, Emilia Lanyer. Audio, 14 minutes
Jerry Brotton looks at those from around the world who made their homes in Tudor England.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
In Our Time. Walt Whitman. Audio, 50 minutes
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the innovative and highly influential American poet.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
HARDtalk. John Cooper Clarke: Punk and poetry. Audio, 23 minutes
Stephen Sackur speaks to the pioneering performance poet
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year