Poetry and Planets: Simon Armitage

Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's radio poetry archive with 'Poetry and Planets' featuring Simon Armitage plus an interview from 'Start the Week' where he discusses his inspiration.

'Poetry and Planets': When poet Simon Armitage invested in a powerful Russian telescope to scan the night skies above his native Huddersfield, he produced a sequence of almost 90 poems about the constellations and their modem imaginative resonances. Simon introduces and reads his favourite poems from the sequence.

Producer: Robert Ketteridge. From 1998

'Start The Week': Simon Armitage talks about his collection CloudCuckooLand with Melvyn Bragg.

Producer: Olivia Seligman. From 1997.