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: Charles Causley, William Whitehead and Iain Crichton Smith

Charles Causley, William Whitehead and Iain Crichton Smith

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Poetry Extra, Charles Causley, William Whitehead and Iain Crichton Smith

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

Dalgit Nagra selects Time for Verse featuring Charles Causley and William Whitehead. From 1988; 1987. Plus Iain Crichton Smith.

Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's poetry archive and selects two editions of Time for Verse - featuring Charles Causley and William Whitehead.  Plus Three Score and Ten with Iain Crichton Smith.

Time For Verse: Charles Causley 2/5 
The second of five programmes in which George MacBeth interviews Charles Causley about his life and poetry.
Featuring Poems – “Timothy Winters”; “School At Four O’Clock”; “I Saw A Jolly Hunter”; “Ou Phrontis”.

Reader - Michael Deacon 

Produced by Alec Reid 

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1988. 

Time For Verse: Poets Laureate - William Whitehead (1715-85)
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 

Producer - Margaret Bradley 

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1987.  

Three Score And Ten: Iain Crichton Smith
Ian McMillan introduces archive recordings of Iain Crichton Smith reading three of his poems from Poetry Now, October 1976 [Producer -  Stewart Conn] and September 1981 [Producer - Fraser Steel].

Three Score And Ten producer - Sharon Sephton

First broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in 2016

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