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6 Music's Way With Words

As part of 6 Music鈥檚 Way With Words, Cerys Matthews chats to Craig Charles about a poem he鈥檚 written to mark National Poetry Day, as well as playing some of her favourite music inspired by poetry.

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1 hour

Music Played

  • Bob Dylan

    Subterranean Homesick Blues

    • CBS.
  • Tony Allen

    Cosmosis (feat. Ben Okri & Skepta)

    • Cosmosis.
    • Universal Music Division Decca Records France.
    • 1.
  • John Coltrane

    A Love Supreme, Pt. IV - Psalm

    • A Love Supreme.
    • GRP.
    • 4.
  • Sarah Webster Fabio

    If We Come As Soft Rain

    • Kollective Neighbouring Rights Records B.V..
  • Huw Marc Bennett & Miryam Solomon

    In My Craft

    • Single.
    • Albert's Favourite's.
  • Adam Horovitz, Cerys Matthews & Hidden Orchestra

    A House Built From Cloth

    • We Come From The Sun.
    • Decca (UMO) (Classics).
    • 8.
  • The Handsome Family

    Weightless Again

    • Through the Trees.
    • Loose Music.
    • 1.
  • Nikki Giovanni

    Just A NY Poem

    • The Way I Feel.
    • Modern Harmonic.
    • 3.
  • Flora Hibberd

    Night, Perpetual

    • Hold.
    • 22TWENTY.
    • 5.
  • Gil Scott鈥怘eron

    When You Are Who You Are

    • Flying Dutchman/RCA.
  • CMAT

    Where Are Your Kids Tonight (feat. John Grant)

    • CMATBABY.
  • Craig Charles

    2024

  • Dilated Peoples & Talib Kweli

    Kindness For Weakness

    • 20/20.
    • Capitol Records.
    • 6.

Broadcast

  • Thu 3 Oct 2024 13:00