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A brand new poetry slot on Radio 4 Extra gives listeners a weekly opportunity to revisit the riches of the BBC radio poetry archive

Poetry Extra: New Lyrical Ballads

Poetry Extra: New Lyrical Ballads: Episode 1

Episode 1

New Lyrical Ballads

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Poetry Extra, New Lyrical Ballads, Episode 1

Daljit Nagra introduces poets reading lyrical ballads inspired by Wordsworth and Coleridge

4 Extra Debut. Daljit Nagra introduces 26 leading poets reading their own lyrical ballads inspired by the Wordsworth and Coleridge originals. From November 2015.

Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's radio poetry archive with 'New Lyrical Ballads' featuring 26 leading poets reading work inspired by the originals. 

In the first of two programmes, Britain's current poets read their own work inspired by Wordsworth and Coleridge's original Lyrical Ballads. 

That slim volume of poetry, published in Wine Street in Bristol, is renowned for its radical preface and considered to have marked the beginning of the English Romantic movement in literature. 

Featuring: Fleur Adcock, Patience Agbabi, John Burnside, Gillian Clarke, Paul Farley, David Harsent, Kathleen Jamie, Liz Lochhead, Ian McMillan, Andrew Motion, Sean O'Brien, Alice Oswald, Ruth Padel, Don Paterson, Jean Sprackland and Michael Symmons Roberts. 

Introduced by festival director, Andrew Kelly. 

Recorded at the Bristol Festival of Ideas which commissioned the work and gathered all the poets together to read their work to an expectant audience. 

Producer: Tim Dee 

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2015.

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26 poets read lyrical ballads inspired by the original Wordsworth and Coleridge collection

26 British poets read their own lyrical ballads inspired by the original Wordsworth and Coleridge collection

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