Keats, Bonnie Tyler, Museums and contested heritage
John Keats was just 25 when he died in Rome 200 years ago. To mark the anniversary, The Poetry Society has commissioned new work from award-winning contemporary poets.
John Keats was just 25 when he died in Rome 200 years ago. To mark the anniversary The Poetry Society has commissioned new work from award-winning contemporary poets responding to Keats鈥檚 work, and two of them 鈥� Rachael Boast and Will Harris 鈥� join us to share their poems and discuss why Keats is still important to contemporary writers 200 hundred years after his death.
鈥淭he Best Is Yet To Come鈥� is Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler鈥檚 18th studio album. Pushed back by the pandemic, it鈥檚 a return to the bombastic full-figured 80s sound that characterised Total Eclipse of the Heart and some of her other greatest hits. At the age of 69, does the rock veteran feel like the best is yet to come?
Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden summoned 25 heads of England's Museums and heritage organisations to a summit today to discuss the issue of contested history and the government policy of "retain and explain". Duncan Wilson, Chief Exec of Historic England, reports on the meeting.
Presenter: Kirsty Lang
Producer: Hilary Dunn
Studio Manager: Duncan Hannant
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