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Andrew Motion: Coming Home
Andrew Motion
Poet
Andrew Motion uses conversations with British soldiers as the basis for a series of new poems reflecting on what it is like for British soldiers to come home after their campaign in Afghanistan.
A Hospital Odyssey
Gwyneth Lewis
Poet, Author, Writer
Gwyneth Lewis was the first Poet Laureate of Wales. She wrote her original poem A Hospital Odyssey drawing on very personal experience after her husband was diagnosed with cancer. For the Radio 4 Blog she writes about those experiences that inspired the work.
Bookclub: Gillian Clarke
Jim Naughtie
Jim Naughtie presents Bookclub on BBC Radio 4
Gillian Clarke, the national poet of Wales, talks about her collection Ice and her love of the Welsh language.
In Our Time newsletter: Heraclitus
Melvyn Bragg
Editor's note: In last week's programme Melvyn Bragg and his guests discussed Heraclitus. As always the programme is available to listen to online or to download and keep - PM. Hello After the programme Angie Hobbs told us the saying that she most liked: "Mortals are immortal, im...
Saturday Live Poetry Pop-Up on Radio 4 Extra
Chris Wilson
Editor's note: Thursday 6 October is National Poetry Day and Radio 4 Extra has a special programme featuring the Saturday Live poets to mark it. Full details at the end of this post - PM. The English romantic poet Shelley said "Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world". A grand ...
Black Roses: The Killing of Sophie Lancaster - Four years on
Simon Armitage
Editor's note - In 2007 a young student, Sophie Lancaster suffered fatal injuries while protecting her boyfriend Rob from a ferocious attack by a group of youths. She later died on August 24th 2007. Black Roses: The Killing of Sophie Lancaster is a drama documentary marking the anniversary of he...
Rhyme and Reason: helping the nation fall in love with poetry
Mike Hanson
The Rhyme and Reason series is the first programme BBC 6 Music has produced for Radio 4. As it's a series that explores the musical nature of words as found in poetry, it seems only right that the BBC's radio station that digs deeper into the intellectual psyche of music should produce work for ...
The end of the affair
Gwyneth Williams
Editor's note: Radio 4's new Controller has been in the job for three weeks. Her second blog post concerns the party conferences, poetry and anagrams - SB. The End of the Affair - I mean the party conference season. The Today Programme's set of leader interviews was unmissable. Ingredients: tak...
Cosmic dust and poetry in Cardiff
Caroline Raphael
Commissioning Editor, Radio 4 & 4 Extra
Free tickets for BBC Radio 4 recordings at Cardiff University Update: the information about Any Questions below is wrong. The panel for tomorrow's live show is: Claire Fox (Institute of Ideas), Tim Montgomerie (Editor of Conservative Home), AN Wilson (journalist) and Chuka Umunna (Labour's Parl...
Morpurgo reads Sassoon on PM
Tony Pilgrim
In the hour or so before Prime Minister's Questions today, MPs were invited to another event. In one of the Commons' committee rooms, the National Heritage Memorial Fund announced it was donating half a million pounds to save the collection of Siegfried Sassoon's private diaries and pocket noteb...
