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Night Waves

on BBC Radio 3

The bookshops are stacked with small volumes, you can read it on the Underground, it pops up in Newsnight - but what is the place of poetry in contemporary culture?
Richard Coles considers the search for an audience and talks to Sean
O'Brien, author of an ambitious collection of essays on the changing voices of British and Irish poetry from Larkin to Lochhead.
Producer Julian May

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Richard Coles

BBC Radio 3

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Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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