Poetry
Four Thought. Healing Minds. Audio, 15 minutes
Rachel Kelly believes there needs to be a more nuanced approach to mental illness.
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In Our Time. Aurora Leigh. Audio, 47 minutes
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Aurora Leigh by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
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In Our Time. Rumi's Poetry. Audio, 47 minutes
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the poetry of Rumi (1207-1273).
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Sunday Feature. Crossing the Border - Poetry and Film. Audio, 45 minutes
Matthew Sweet explores the overlooked history of poetry in film.
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Sunday Feature. Freeze: Thaw. Audio, 45 minutes
Hayden Lorimer discusses ice with poets, musicians, explorers, doctors and physicists.
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The Essay. Cornerstones, Northern Lights - Cornerstones: Scandinavia's Samiland. Audio, 15 minutes
Poet John Burnside explores his fascination with the Sami landscapes of northern Norway.
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The Essay. Between the Essays, And Fall. Audio, 14 minutes
Radio producers from around the world offer a series of Between the Ears in miniature.
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The Essay. Between the Essays Retrospective, Episode 1. Audio, 14 minutes
Audio producers from around the world bring a touch of Between the Ears to The Essay.
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The Essay. Between the Essays, Between the Essays: Like Steps of Passing Ghosts. Audio, 15 minutes
Kaitlin Prest explores how we can remain haunted by past loves.
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The Essay. Between the Essays, With Faint Dry Sound. Audio, 14 minutes
Radio producers from around the world offer a series of Between the Ears in miniature.
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Sunday Feature. Ginsberg in India. Audio, 45 minutes
Writer Jeet Thayil retraces beat poet Allen Ginsberg's travels round India in the 1960s.
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Between the Ears. We Are Writing a Poem about Home. Audio, 30 minutes
A radio poem from Kate Clanchy and the Very Quiet Foreign Girls.
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Desert Island Discs. Imtiaz Dharker. Audio, 36 minutes
Kirsty Young interviews the poet Imtiaz Dharker.
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The Essay. Minds at War: Series 2, Akhmatova's July 1914. Audio, 15 minutes
Sasha Dugdale explores the impact of World War I on the great Russian poet Anna Akhmatova.
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Between the Ears. Bee Journal. Audio, 30 minutes
Poem sequence by Sean Borodale centring on bees and the hive. With the voice of Bellatrix.
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The Essay. WB Yeats at 150, Of Miracle, of Magic. Audio, 15 minutes
Paula Meehan explores the influence of the magical and the mystical in WB Yeats's work.
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The Essay. WB Yeats at 150, The View from the Tower. Audio, 15 minutes
John Banville explains his long-held love for Yeats's 1928 collection of poetry The Tower.
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The Essay. WB Yeats at 150, Not Liking Yeats. Audio, 15 minutes
Writer and commentator Fintan O'Toole on his love-hate relationship with WB Yeats.
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The Essay. WB Yeats at 150, Yeats by Heart. Audio, 15 minutes
Fiona Shaw explains the impact of her childhood introduction to the work of WB Yeats.
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Sunday Feature. WB Yeats and the Artifice of Eternity. Audio, 60 minutes
Theo Dorgan explores the continuing importance of WB Yeats, 150 years after he was born.
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The Essay. Why I Write, Hay Festival: Gillian Clarke. Audio, 15 minutes
At the 2015 Hay Festival, Welsh poet laureate Gillian Clarke explains why she writes.
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Incarnations: India in 50 Lives. Amir Khusro: The Parrot of India. Audio, 15 minutes
Sunil Khilnani profiles the 'Parrot of India' - warrior, poet and Sufi saint Amir Khusro.
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