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Time For Verse - James Berry

Poet Daljit Nagra selects Time for Verse featuring the conversation and poetry of James Berry. With George MacBeth. From 1988.

Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's radio poetry archive to choose two episodes of Time for Verse featuring James Berry.

George MacBeth talks to James about his life and poetry.

Poems featured in episode 1 of the five part series:

In God's Greatest Country, 1945
On An Afternoon Train From Purley To Victoria, 1955
White Child Meets Black Man.

Poems featured in episode 2:

Travelling As We Are
It's Me Man
Two Black Labourers On A London Building Site
In-a Brixtan Markit

Producer: Alec Reid

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1988.

30 minutes

Last on

Mon 8 Apr 202402:00

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