Tell Me the Truth About Love 1-2/5

Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's poetry archive and celebrates Valentine's Day by selecting Tell Me the Truth About Love eps 1 to 2 of 5.

Former Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy celebrates the tradition of love poetry, from first flush to final parting.

She argues that love poems are the poems that continue to have the most profound and lasting impact on the general reader, and examines enduring images and themes across ages and cultures.

In conversation with other love poets, Carol Ann celebrates the great poems of love and explores poets' responses to love's mysteries.

Each programme in this series looks at a different stage in the development of a relationship.

The opening episode focuses on the excitement of a first meeting and the headiness of early infatuation and the second focuses on poets' different seduction strategies.

Producer: Emma Harding

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2013.