With Great Pleasure
Daljit Nagra
28 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
Daljit Nagra, Radio 4's poet-in-residence, talks about his favourite music, poetry and prose. Show more
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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
Front Row
Leonard Cohen, BalletBoyz, Contemporary war poetry
30 minutes
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An archive interview with the late Leonard Cohen, BalletBoyz directors on their WWI dance film Young Men, and Kevin Powers and Daljit Nagra on contemporary war poetry. Show more
Front Row
St Vincent, Andrew Michael Hurley, The Tin Drum, Daljit Nagra
30 minutes
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St Vincent discusses her new album Masseduction; poet Daljit Nagra on poetry in TV and radio adverts; novelist Andrew Michael Hurley; and Gunter Grass's The Tin Drum on stage. Show more
Front Row
King Charles III; Pink Floyd exhibition
30 minutes
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We talk to writer, director and actor from the TV adaptation of a controversial play about the Windsors; and the curator of a Pink Floyd retrospective shows us flying pigs. Show more
Front Row
New York's Fearless Girl, Lawrence Brownlee, Cornelia Parker, Daljit Nagra
30 minutes
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The controversy over the Fearless Girl statue in New York; official election artist Cornelia Parker; Daljit Nagra on Helen Dumore; Lawrence Brownlee plays Charlie Parker. Show more
Front Row
Joseph Fiennes, Daljit Nagra, Wyndham Lewis, Catriona Morison
30 minutes
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Joseph Fiennes on the Handmaid's Tale. Plus poet Daljit Nagra, a new exhibition on Wyndham Lewis, and mezzo-soprano Catriona Morison, winner of BBC Cardiff Singer of the World. Show more
Front Row
Artist Richard Long, Stella Duffy chooses her Queer Icon, Daljit Nagra on Liu Xiaobo
30 minutes
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Artist Richard Long on A Line Made by Walking; measuring the quality of art paid for by the public; Stella Duffy nominates her Queer Icon; Daljit Nagra on Liu Xiaobo's poetry. Show more
Front Row
Decline and Fall; Adrian Mole turns 50; Hollie McNish
30 minutes
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As a new TV adaptation is aired, Front Row discusses Evelyn Waugh's Decline and Fall; Adrian Mole at 50 - a look at his poetry; Hollie McNish on her play about women in football. Show more
Front Row
Ray Davies; Guerrilla; The Odyssey; Damien Hirst's exhibition
30 minutes
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From the Kinks to Americana, Ray Davies on his new album; Dreda Say Mitchell on Guerrilla; Daljit Nagra reads his response to The Odyssey; Matthew Collings on the Hirst exhibition. Show more
Front Row
Louis Theroux, National Poetry Day, Merch yr Eog
30 minutes
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Louis Theroux on Scientology, Savile, and silences; PJ Harvey, Daljit Nagra and Holly McNish read new poems; and Merch yr Eog, a play performed in Welsh, Breton, French and Creole. Show more
Start the Week
Greek myth and the Indian epic Ramayana
43 minutes
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Stephanie Flanders with poets Anne Carson and Daljit Nagra, director Richard Eyre and writer Graham Robb. Show more