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John Dryden, Jean Binta Breeze and Spike Milligan

Poet Daljit Nagra, in an eclectic range, selects John Dryden, Jean Binta Breeze and Spike Milligan from the BBC poetry archive.

Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's radio poetry archive and chooses three programmes from the BBC archive : Time for Verse - Poets Laureate: John Dryden presented by Sean Street ; Three Score and Ten featuring Jean Binta Breeze and Time for Verse with Spike Milligan with George MacBeth.

Time for Verse - Poets Laureate: John Dryden - presented by Sean Street
Produced by Margaret Bradley
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1987

Three Score and Ten featuring Jean Binta Breeze presented by Ian McMillan
Produced by Sharon Sephton
First broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in 2016

Time for Verse with Spike Milligan presented by George MacBeth
Produced by Alec Reid.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1988.

30 minutes

Broadcasts

  • Sun 18 Aug 201917:00
  • Mon 19 Aug 201905:00