Poetry
A Soft Day. Audio, 28 minutes
Author Carlo Gebler shows how rain has saturated Ireland's poetry and shaped his identity.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
This Cultural Life. Linton Kwesi Johnson. Audio, 43 minutes
Reggae poet Linton Kwesi Johnson reveals his cultural influences.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
In the Studio. Nikita Gill: Imagining Hekate. Audio, 27 minutes
The goddess of witchcraft gets poetic treatment
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
The Documentary Podcast. In the Studio: Nikita Gill. Audio, 28 minutes
A Greek goddess of witchcraft gets poetic treatment
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
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- Posted23 March 2023
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- Posted23 March 2023
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- Posted21 March 2023
Sunday Feature. Heinrich Heine: The First Modern European. Audio, 44 minutes
Michael Goldfarb tells the story of playwright, poet and essayist Heinrich Heine.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
In the Studio. Ada Limón: A poem for Nasa. Audio, 27 minutes
The US poet laureate creates a new work for a mission to Europa, an icy moon of Jupiter
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted4 March 2023
Arts & Ideas. Dom Sylvester Houédard. Audio, 44 minutes
Matthew Sweet and guests on the career of the C20th concrete poet and Catholic mystic
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Opening Lines. The Bronze Horseman. Audio, 15 minutes
John Yorke looks at Alexander Pushkin’s celebrated narrative poem, The Bronze Horseman.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Scarlett Moffatt Wants to Believe. Did Shakespeare really write all those plays? with Dean McCullough. Audio, 41 minutes
Is drama school just like the movies? Can Scott and Dean write Scarlett a poem?
- AttributionBBC Radio 1
- Available for over a year
Archive on 4. My Sylvia Plath. Audio, 57 minutes
Emily Berry presents a personal meditation on the life and afterlife of Sylvia Plath.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
The Radio 3 Documentary. Metal City. Audio, 44 minutes
How has metalworking affected the culture of Birmingham over hundreds of years?
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
Sunday Feature. Metal City. Audio, 44 minutes
How has metalworking affected the culture of Birmingham over hundreds of years?
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
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- Posted1 February 2023
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- Posted21 January 2023
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- Posted20 January 2023
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- Posted15 January 2023
Arts & Ideas. Phillis Wheatley. Audio, 44 minutes
The enslaved African American woman, Phillis Wheatley who became a celebrated poet.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted8 January 2023
Sunday Feature. Unlocking Anne. Audio, 44 minutes
Clare Pollard pieces together the life and work of forgotten 16th-century poet Anne Lock.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
Arts & Ideas. Amílcar Cabral. Audio, 45 minutes
Rana Mitter and guests discuss the pan-Africanist poet and anti-colonial leader.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
