BBC Radio 4 FM

BBC Radio 4 is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 30th September 1967. It replaced BBC Home Service.

BBC Radio 4

Radio 4

Radio 4 (FM)

Every Little Touch

Readings

Factual: Arts, Culture & the Media: Arts

BBC Radio 4 - Every Little Touch

Writer Noo Saro-Wiwa gives her personal perspective on poetry’s relationship with touch.

Writer Noo Saro-Wiwa gives her personal perspective on poetry’s relationship with touch, as part of Radio 4's Touch Test week.

Whether it’s the missing hug of a parent, the affirmation of a handshake, or the grabbing of a handrail on a bus, the boundaries of our sense of touch have changed in recent months.  

In this programme, as part of Radio 4’s Touch Test week, the writer Noo Saro-Wiwa gives her personal perspective on poetry’s relationship with touch, and speaks to modern poets about what it means to them now.

With extracts from Thom Gunn, Anne Carson, Alfred Tennyson, Imtiaz Dharker and Sarah Jackson’s book Tactile poetics and music by Jonsi.  

The readers are Simon Russell Beale and Sheila Ruskin.

Producer: Emily Williams
Sound Design by Jess Hatton-Brown 

A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4

Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

Accessibility links

Programme Index

Every Little Touch

Genres

Formats

BBC Radio 4 FM

About BBC Radio 4