The Great Libraries - The Bodleian Library

Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC archive in search of the best poetry programmes.

This time he selects an episode of The Great Libraries, the series where Joan Bakewell seeks out the most treasured poetry in some of the UK's great libraries.

In this edition, Joan travels to the Bodleian Library to look at precious manuscripts by poets with an Oxford connection.

With:

Richard Ovenden
Chris Fletcher
Bruce Barker-Benfield

Poetry read by Andrew Motion.

Producer: Susan Roberts

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2007.