Poetry Extra: Poetry And Planets

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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: Poetry and Planets

Poetry Extra: Poetry and Planets: Simon Armitage

Poetry and Planets: Simon Armitage

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Poetry Extra, Poetry and Planets: Simon Armitage

Daljit Nagra introduces a piece by Simon Armitage and an interview from Start the Week.

Poet Daljit Nagra introduces a piece by Simon Armitage and an interview from Start the Week. From 1998 and 1997.

Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's radio poetry archive with 'Poetry and Planets' featuring Simon Armitage plus an interview from 'Start the Week' where he discusses his inspiration. 

'Poetry and Planets': When poet Simon Armitage invested in a powerful Russian telescope to scan the night skies above his native Huddersfield, he produced a sequence of almost 90 poems about the constellations and their modem imaginative resonances. Simon introduces and reads his favourite poems from the sequence.

Producer: Robert Ketteridge. From 1998

'Start The Week': Simon Armitage talks about his collection CloudCuckooLand with Melvyn Bragg.

Producer: Olivia Seligman. From 1997.

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