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The Wellbeing Verb
Melissa Lee-Houghton, Julie Hesmondhalgh and George Szirtes.
Fighting Talk
Willy Vlautin, Ben Crystal and Ross Sutherland get physical with language.
Poetry Book Club with Douglas Dunn
Ian McMillan and the Poetry Book Club audience are joined by Douglas Dunn.
Notes on The Verb
Writer Toby Litt and journalist Jude Rogers take notes with Ian McMillan.
The Local Verb
Sarah Hall, Hollie McNish & Vanessa Kisuule, Ari Eldjarn, and Rob Drummond.
W.S. Graham
The Verb visits Cornwall to celebrate the centenary of the poet W.S. Graham.
Algorithms
Getting creative with code with Eugenia Cheng and Helen Arney.
Night Meetings - Japan
The Verb meets the language of night-time Japan - in comedy, poetry and 'the blues'.
Autism: poetry, language and writing
With Henry Normal, Kate Fox, James McGrath and Alicia Kopf.
Jan Morris
A special extended interview with travel writer Jan Morris.
The Festival Verb
Ian McMillan's guests include Murray Lachlan Young, Louise Welsh, and William Letford.
The Verb at the Hay Festival.
Ian McMillan talks resilience with The Last Poets, Michael Morpurgo and Helen Mort.
Michael Ondaatje
Ian McMillan is joined by Michael Ondaatje for a special edition of The Verb.
Northern Rocks
The language and literature of northern rocks and climbing.
The NHS at 70
The Verb celebrates the NHS at 70.
The Verb at the Proms
Ian McMillan is joined by Michael Palin, Anne Dudley, Jason Singh and Mojdeh Stoakley.
Latitude Festival
Join Ian and guests at the Latitude Festival's Speakeasy stage
Contains Strong Language festival
The Verb at Contains Strong Language with Jackie Kay, Gruff Rhys and Louise Wallwein
Young Poets
The Verb at the 'Contains Strong Language' festival in Hull with the Foyle Young Poets
Failure for Writers
The Verb on 'failure' with Kate Fox, Mohammed Hanif, Scanner and Bryony Kimmings
Into The Forest
The Verb explores the forest as metaphor with Terry Deary and Pascale Petit
Instagram Poetry
featuring Yrsa Daley-Ward
Writing The Midlands
The Verb on The Midlands with Jonathan Coe, Liz Berry, Polar Bear
Unwritten
The Verb presents 'Unwritten: Caribbean Poems After The First World War'
Unwritten Poems - Verb Podcast Extra
A chance to hear the poems from the Unwritten event at 'Contains Strong Language' in full
Uncertainty
Shaun Usher, Jo Neary and Jude Rogers are in the late-night language lock-in.
What's in a name?
With Iain Sinclair, Kate Fox, Sam Illingworth and Marilyn Hacker
07/12/2018
With Will Eaves, Ben Schott, Selina Nwulu and Jeremy Noel-Tod
Sleepless Nights
With Al Kennedy, Amy Liptrot, Marina Benjamin and Bridget Minamore.
The Christmas Verb
Song and storytelling with Simon Armitage, Joanne Harris and Owen Roberts
Synesthesia
Hearing colours and tasting words with Hannah Silva, LJ Rich, Rob Drummond and Ruth Padel