Poetry Extra

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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: Carol Ann Duffy, Gillian Clarke, Blithe Spirits

Carol Ann Duffy, Gillian Clarke, Blithe Spirits

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Poetry Extra, Carol Ann Duffy, Gillian Clarke, Blithe Spirits

Three programmes featuring Carol Ann Duffy, Gillian Clarke and birds in poetry.

Daljit Nagra selects Time For Verse: Carol Ann Duffy, Gillian Clarke, and Blithe Spirits on nightingales. From 1989, 2002 and 2001.

Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's radio poetry archive and chooses Time For Verse: Carol Ann Duffy; Three Score and Ten with the former National Poet of Wales Gillian Clarke; and Blithe Spirits looks at verse inspired by birds. 

The last of five programmes in which George MacBeth talks with the poet and occasional playwright Carol Ann Duffy. 
Reader Lin Sagovsky. 
Producer Alec Reid.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1989.

Three Score And Ten - Gillian Clarke [Radio 3, 29/11/2016]
Ian McMillan with another episode in the series introducing former National Poet of Wales, Gillian Clarke reading her poems The Beginning and Flood from a Twenty Minutes Poetry Prom broadcast in 2002.
Producer: Sharon Sephton
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2002.

Blithe Spirits 1/5
Birds. Our impressions of historical attitudes to wildlife are often gained by reading poetry, but how accurate a picture were the poets painting? Even as Keats and Shelley were writing their verse on skylarks and nightingales, thousands of Shelley's ""Blithe Spirits"" were being caught each year for the pot. Joanna PINNOCK explores the works of the romantic poets and asks whether they really knew their natural history.
Produced by Brett WESTWOOD. 
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2001.

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