Sean Street explores the life of Ludwig Koch, pioneering nature broadcaster, who came to Britain escaping the Nazis. From 2009. Show more
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Mission: Impossible - Fallout, American footballer-turned-opera star Morris Robinson, Commercial bookclubs
30 minutes
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Morris Robinson was an American footballer. Now he's an opera star. The bass singer tells his story and performs. Plus, are book clubs becoming commercial? Show more
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Claire Foy, Bryan Hymel, Film Heritage
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Claire Foy on the line between fact and fiction as she plays the Queen. Top C tenor Bryan Hymel sings. And how we can pass our film heritage on to a generation bemused by choice. Show more
In the Studio
Dana Gioia - Poet Laureate of California
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Poet Dana Gioia reveals the inspiration for his new poem The Ballad of Jesus Ortiz. Show more
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Eddie Izzard, Wilko Johnson and novelist Benjamin Markovits
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Arts news, interviews and reviews. Eddie Izzard reveals why he is reading all of Dickens' novels aloud and Wilko Johnson talks about his first album since his recovery from cancer. Show more
The Odyssey Project: My Name Is Nobody
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Mr Nobody Listening to His Own Story at the Court of King Alcinous
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Golan Haji and Stephen Watts' poem drawing on the episode in which Odysseus is among people listening to a blind bard extolling the exploits of a wandering hero - Odysseus himself. Show more
In Karen McCarthy Woolf's drama in couplets, inspired by the Underworld episode in Homer, Odysseus's mother strives to contact her son, who is working a night shift as a cab driver. Show more
Circe turns Odysseus's men into pigs, the god Hermes gives him a herb to make him immune. Poet Inua Ellams turns this into a modern story of enchantment, desire and disenchantment. Show more
Zaffar Kunial's father comes from Kashmir but his response to the bag of winds story in The Odyssey blows him north to Orkney and back into a different family history. Show more
Odysseus heroically leaves to fight at Troy. In so doing he deserts his wife and, shamefully, his son, Telemachus. Sarah Howe explores the parallels with family life in China today. Show more
Reza Mohammadi, a leading poet in Persian, sets his response to Homer in Kabul. Places and events in Afghanistan's capital and environs chime compellingly with The Odyssey. Show more
On his return, Odysseus slaughters the suitors who have been pestering his wife. In Daljit Nagra's poem, Daag returns from Sheffield to fetch his beleaguered wife. He has a knife. Show more
Fleeing Bangladesh Mir Mahfuz Ali nearly drowned in a whirlpool. In his response to the Scylla and Charybdis episode in The Odyssey, an oud player makes a perilous sea voyage. Show more
Alemu Tebeje's poetic drama follows Tamrat from his idyllic boyhood in the mountains of Ethiopia through love, student protest to flight from the police, the big-eyed Cyclops. Show more
Burt Caesar assesses John La Rose’s legacy - founder of Britain's first black publishing house. With Margaret Busby. From 2011. Show more
Last Word
A geophysicist, a pro-life campaigner, a former Ford UK chief executive, a composer and an actor
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Matthew Bannister on geophysicist Joe Farman, pro-life campaigner Dr Margaret White, Ford UK chief executive Sir Terence Beckett, composer Steve Martland and actor Arnold Peters. Show more
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A comedy writer, a founding member of The Doors, an Argentine dictator, a Pakistani politician and an escapologist
28 minutes
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Obituary series. Matthew Bannister on Doors keyboard player Ray Manzarek, Argentine dictator Jorge Videla, Pakistani politician Zahra Shahid Hussain and comedy writer Eddie Braben. Show more
Poetry Please
Poetry Please Special: Edge
30 minutes
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Edge is a journey through space in poetry by Katrina Porteous and music by Peter Zinovieff, recorded live at the Centre for Life in Newcastle during the British Science Festival. Show more
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An architect, the founder of Ms magazine, an Olympic sailor, an Italian politician and a film director
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Remembering sailing gold medallist Andrew Simpson, film director Bryan Forbes, Italian prime minister Giulio Andreotti, Ms Magazine editor Mary Thom and architect Rick Mather. Show more
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John Constable, Frank Sinatra, The art of animation, Poetic performance enhancers
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John Wilson talks to Frank Sinatra's biographer, views Constable's The Lock and meets the great animation artist Barry Purves, plus there's a call to kick drugs out of poetry. Show more