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6 Music's Way With Words: Arlo Parks, Lemn Sissay and Tim Key

Way With Words is back! Craig's guests include Tim Key, Lemn Sissay, Arlo Parks and Nitin Sawhney. Stay tuned for a new poem from Craig soundtracked by Sam Redmore, too!

Craig celebrates National Poetry Day with a feast of words, rhymes and tunes.

Special guests include Tim Key, Nitin Sawhney and a poetry-themed 6 Music Fight Club between Arlo Parks and Lemn Sissay.

Craig also performs a brand new poem he has penned especially for the occasion, in collaboration with Sam Redmore.

In the Class of 2023: the final inductee is unveiled.

Finally, in Pass the Prose, Craig reads out the poem composed by 6 Music listeners across the week.

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Last on

Thu 5 Oct 202313:00
BBC Radio 6 Music

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Music Played

  • McKinley Dixon & Hanif

    Hanif Reads Toni

    • Beloved! Paradise! Jazz!.
    • City Slang.

  • Queen Latifah

    U.N.I.T.Y.

    • Black Reign.
    • Motown.

  • Gabriels

    Blame

    • Parlophone.

  • X‐Ray Spex

    Germ-Free Adolescents

    • Virgin.

  • Nina Simone

    I Wish I Knew (How It Would Feel To Be Free)

    • The Best Of.
    • Philips.

  • Arlo Parks

    Black Dog

    • Transgressive Records.

  • Elle Dillon Reams

    We Are London

  • Pulp

    Common People

    • Island.

  • Antony Szmierek

    How Did You Get Here?

  • Patti Smith

    Frederick

    • Arista.

  • Björk

    I Miss You (Dobie Rub Part One) [Sunshine Mix]

    Remix Artist: Dobie.
    • Telegram.
    • 143/Lava/Atlantic.
    • 5.

  • Bob Marley & The Wailers

    Exodus

    • Tuff Gong.

  • Bob Vylan

    Dream Big

    • GHOST.

  • Marvin Gaye

    What's Going On

    • Tamla Motown.

  • Loyle Carner

    Ottolenghi (feat. Jordan Rakei)

    • AMF Records/Virgin EMI.

  • Nick Drake

    Parasite

    • Pink Moon.
    • Universal-Island Records Ltd..
    • 8.

  • Tom Waits

    Nirvana

    • Orphans.

  • Ebony Rhythm Band

    Light My Fire

    • Soul Heart Transplant: The Lamp Sessions.
    • Now Again Records.

  • Aretha Franklin

    I Say A Little Prayer

    • Aretha Franklin - Queen Of Soul.
    • Atlantic.

  • Public Enemy

    Fight The Power

    • The No.1 Rap Album.
    • Polygram Tv.
    • 7.

  • Joni Mitchell

    Free Man In Paris

    • Reprise.

  • Echo & the Bunnymen

    Villiers Terrace

    • Korova.

  • Craig Charles & Sam Redmore

    It Began In Africa

    • White.

  • The Beatles

    I Am The Walrus

    • APPLE.

  • Killer Mike

    Don't Let The Devil (feat. El‐P & thankugoodsir)

    • Loma Vista Recordings.

  • Sade

    Paradise

    • The Best Of Sade.
    • Epic/Legacy.
    • 9.

  • Nitin Sawhney

    Ancestral (feat. Hak Baker)

  • The Cranberries

    Zombie

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.

Broadcast

  • Thu 5 Oct 202313:00
    BBC Radio 6 Music