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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 Sprits: Monsters and The Essay: An Ode to John Keats

Blithe Sprits: Monsters and The Essay: An Ode to John Keats

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

Daljit Nagra selects Blithe Spirits: Monsters and An Ode to Autumn with Frances Leviston.  From 2001 and 2019.

Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's poetry archive and selects Blithe Spirits: Monsters and An Ode to Autumn with Frances Leviston.  From 2001 and 2019.


Blithe Sprits - Monsters 
Monsters. Alfred Tennyson 's Kraken and John Milton's Leviathan, which he described in Paradise Lost, are well-known poetic monsters which have inspired awe among generations of readers. Joanna Pinnock investigates the importance of monsters in verse and prose and discovers that some are more familiar than our ancestors could have imagined.  

Producer - Brett Westwood

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2001.  

The Essay: An Ode to John Keats - Frances Leviston on Ode to Autumn [Radio 3, 9/1/2019]

1819 was a stunningly fertile year for John Keats, when he wrote five of the greatest odes in the English language and actually introduced words and phrases never heard before - "Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness.....", "Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty....." . Five leading contemporary poets each celebrate a single ode.
3. Frances Leviston celebrates perhaps Keats' best-loved and most frequently anthologised poem, Ode to Autumn, exploring both its depiction of the bounty of autumn and its forebodings of death.

Producer - Beaty Rubens

First broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in 2019.

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