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Roger McGough presents a selection of listeners' requests for the poems of RS Thomas, on the centenary of his birth. Owen Teale is the reader. Show more
Writer and birdwatcher Tim Dee walks the flatlands of The Wash on a quest to capture the elusive sound of 'pure' wind. A poetic, mesmeric film from film-maker Richard Alwyn. Show more
Tim Boon tells the story of Percy Smith, natural history film pioneer, who made movies in his back garden in the 1920s. Show more
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Roger McGough listens to a series of poems by Cornish poet Jack Clemo, who was born 100 years ago. Rowan Williams and Luke Thompson pick their favourites. Show more
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Roger McGough presents a request edition on stage at the Birmingham Literature Festival as audience members pick their favourite poems. Show more
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In a special programme to mark the death of Seamus Heaney, Roger McGough presents a selection of Heaney's poems read by the author himself. Show more
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Roger McGough presents a selection of poems on a watery theme, recorded at the Birmingham Literature Festival. Show more
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Roger McGough introduces poems after Homer by Alice Oswald and Michael Longley. Poems from the beginnings of Western literature made new. Show more
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Roger McGough takes a new job as Noah at the helm of an ark of animal poems. A back to nature edition of poetry requests. Show more
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Roger McGough presents a selection of poetry requested by an audience at the Birmingham Literature Festival, and the audience tell Roger what the requested poems mean to them. Show more
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Roger McGough presents a selection of poems by Czeslaw Milosz and Emily Dickinson, read by Peter Marinker and Eleanor Tremain. Show more
Shakespeare is on his deathbed, but Cervantes, who should be too, has plans for them both. A play to mark their death days by Jonathan Holloway. Show more
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Drama-documentary set and recorded in an apple orchard. Miss Balcombe is getting on, but she is determined to keep her apple trees. Stars Susan Engel. Show more
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A depressed man and the sofa that sorted him out. A true story of illness overcome, written and performed by Andrew Fusek Peters, Polly Peters and Rosalind Jana Peters. Show more
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A play by poet and writer Glyn Maxwell about the 100-year history of a garden city. Made in collaboration with the British Academy and performed in front of an audience there. Show more
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4 Extra Debut. How British PoWs survived incarceration in German camps by studying free-flying birds. Drama documentary with David Bamber. Show more
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Roger McGough introduces story poems, including work by Roy Fisher, Emily Dickinson and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Readers: John Mackay, Niamh Cusack, Anton Lesser and Kenneth Cranham. Show more
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Roger McGough introduces some story poems, including work by Wilfred Owen, Stevie Smith and Rudyard Kipling. Read by John Mackay, Niamh Cusack, Anton Lesser and Kenneth Cranham. Show more
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Roger McGough introduces a selection of requested poetry from three poets who were active one hundred years ago: Edward Thomas, Charlotte Mew and Walter de la Mare. Show more
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By Jonathan Davidson. A Shropshire gent from the 1500s find himself time-travelling to the Syrian border of Turkey in 2015, where he is in love and also involuntarily tweeting. Show more
