Justin Cartwright, Anthony Browne, Bella Hardy, Arto Vaun
Ian McMillan presents BBC Radio 3's weekly language cabaret. With novelist Justin Cartwright, Anthony Browne, Bella Hardy and Arto Vaun on Armenian poetry.
Ian McMillan offers the best writing around in Radio 3's language cabaret. With the novelist Justin Cartwright who reads and discusses a new piece commissioned by The Verb. Children's laureate Anthony Browne discusses marrying words and pictures in his books for children. Bella Hardy performs material from her new album Songs Lost and Stolen. And, Arto Vaun introduces contemporary Armenian poetry in the shadow of the Armenian Genocide of 1915.
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