Poetry Extra: Rites of Passage

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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: Rites of Passage - Changing Schools

Rites of Passage - Changing Schools

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Poetry Extra, Rites of Passage - Changing Schools

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

Daljit Nagra selects Rites of Passage - with poems on the theme of leaving primary school. Presented by Ian McMillan. From 2004.

Poet Dajlit Nagra revisits the BBC's poetry archive and selects Rites of Passage - Changing Schools featuring poems from children leaving primary.

Ian McMillan meets people who turn to poetry for inspiration or solace at key moments in their lives. Changing Schools. McMillan visits Year 6 at Hoyland Springwood Primary School in Barnsley, Yorkshire, where he encourages the children to write a poem about going up to "big" school.  

Producer Liz Leonard

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2004.

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