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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: Blithe Spirits – 4/5 Low Life & Time For Verse – Poets Laureate: Henry Pye

Blithe Spirits – 4/5 Low Life & Time For Verse – Poets Laureate: Henry Pye

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Poetry Extra, Blithe Spirits – 4/5 Low Life & Time For Verse – Poets Laureate: Henry Pye

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

Daljit Nagra selects Blithe Spirits - Low Life ep 4 and Time for Verse: Poets Laureate - Henry Pye.   From 2001 and 1987.

Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's poetry archive and selects Time for Verse: Poets Laureate - Henry Pye and Blithe Spirits - Low Life ep 4.   

Time for Verse - Poets Laureate: Henry Pye (1745 - 1813)
From a series about some famous and some forgotten holders of the office.  
Compiled and presented by Sean Street.
Readers: Martin Jarvis, Adrian Cairns and David Goodland
Produced by Margaret Bradley.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1987.

Blithe Spirits  Low Life ep 4

From John Donne’s flea to William Blake’s fly, the lower forms of life have always fascinated poets.  but were they interested in the creatures themselves or for what they represented?  Joanna Pinnock gets under the skin of these great authors and discovers why small things have often inspired great verse
Presenter: Joanna Pinnock
Interviewees	Jonathan Bate  	
Prof Ashton Nichol  
Erica Fudge  	
Cameron Milne   
Christine Hall  
Producer: Brett Westwood

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2001.

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