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Weekly opportunity for listeners to revisit the riches of the BBC radio poetry archive

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: Time for Verse - Poets Laureate: Ben Jonson and Colley Cibber

Time for Verse - Poets Laureate: Ben Jonson and Colley Cibber

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Poetry Extra, Time for Verse - Poets Laureate: Ben Jonson and Colley Cibber

Daljit Nagra selects Time for Verse featuring the first and worst Poet Laureates.

Made for 4 Extra. Daljit Nagra selects Time for Verse Poets Laureate: Ben Jonson and Colley Cibber. From 1987.

With the imminent announcement of a new Poet Laureate in 2019,  poet Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's radio poetry archive selecting Time for Verse Poets Laureate:  Ben Jonson and Colley Cibber.  
  
Sean Street presents two programmes about past Poet Laureates - one the first, and the other, arguably, the worst.  

Produced by Margaret Bradley.

Readers - Martin Jarvis and David Goodland.  

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1987.

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