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: John Heath-Stubbs and Vernon Scannell

John Heath-Stubbs and Vernon Scannell

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Poetry Extra, John Heath-Stubbs and Vernon Scannell

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

Daljit Nagra selects programmes featuring John Heath-Stubbs and Vernon Scannell.   From 1991 and 2016.

Daljit Nagra visits the BBC's poetry archive and selects Poet of the Month: John Heath-Stubbs and Three Score and Ten featuring archive recording of Vernon Scannell. 

Poet Of The Month – John Heath-Stubbs:

Described by CH Sissons as 'a Johnsonian with a Miltonic disability', the poet John Heath-Stubbs is also a translator and critic. Clive Wilmer talks to him about his work.

Producer:  Fiona McLean

First broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in 1991.

Three Score and Ten - Vernon Scannell: 

Ian McMillan with another episode in this fifty part series. From BBC Radio 3's The Poet's Voice, broadcast in 1960, Vernon Scannell reads 'Dejection' and 'A Case of Murder'.

Producer: Sharon Sephton

First broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in 2016.

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