Poetry Extra: Word On The Street

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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: Thomas Hardy and Selima Hill

Thomas Hardy and Selima Hill

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Poetry Extra, Thomas Hardy and Selima Hill

Daljit Nagra selects the very best from the BBC's poetry archive.

Poet Daljit Nagra selects Word on the Street featuring the poetry of Thomas Hardy and Selima Hill. With Jackie Kay. From 2003.

Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's radio poetry archive and selects Word on the Street - Dorset.   

Poet Jackie Kay travels to Dorset to visit Max Gate , Thomas Hardy 's last home, where Hardy wrote much of his poetry in later life. And she meets Selima Hill , an award-winning poet who lives on the Dorset coastline. 

Producer Susan Roberts.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2003.

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