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The Verb

BBC Radio 3
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Ian McMillan devotes this edition to some of the new works that The Verb has commissioned since its first edition.
These include Eros and Psyche, a short story written and read by JM Coetzee;
God's Blood, a drama for radio by Guillermo Arriaga; Jackie Kay's double monologue
The Silence; sonnets from Alice Oswald 's sequence; and an example of the eartoon. Plus a new poem by Michael Symmons Roberts, commissioned to mark the time of the arrival of the Magi.

Contributors

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Ian McMillan
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Guillermo Arriaga
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Jackie Kay
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Alice Oswald
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Michael Symmons
Source: Radio Times

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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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