06/02/2009
Ian McMillan presents the programme from the BBC Radio Theatre. With Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles Simic and Nitin Sawhney, in collaboration with novelist Gemma Weekes.
Ian McMillan presents the weekly cabaret of language from the BBC Radio Theatre. His guests include Nitin Sawhney, with a new collaboration written especially for the programme with novelist Gemma Weekes, as well as Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles Simic.
Plus novelist Iain Sinclair, who takes the audience on a tour of literary East London, and a brand new Eartoon from Sony Award-winner Peter Blegvad.
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