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Ian McMillan presents The Verb from Hebden Bridge in West Yorkshire.

Ian McMillan presents The Verb from the Trades Club in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire with bog poetry, everyday lines from Shakespeare and music.

Ian McMillan presents Radio 3's The Verb from the Trades Club in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire.  He's joined by poet Clare Shaw whose poetry extols the poetic possibilities of peat bogs and moss; Ben and David Crystal whose new book Everyday Shakespeare offers us a quotation from the bard for every day of the year; Jimmy Andrex offers a meeting place between music and poetry and singer Emily Portman and musician Rob Harbron sing the words of Irish poet Louis MacNeice

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