John Arlott's Poetry Book – Shakespeare and Terminates Here

Poet Daljit Nagra selects two short programmes from the BBC's poetry archive

*** John Arlott's Poetry Book – Shakespeare

The cricketing commentator turns to poetry as John talks about and reads from Shakespeare.

John Arlott was the BBC's radio cricketing commentator and successor to George Orwell as the BBC's Literary Programmes Producer (1945-50).

First broadcast on the BBC World Service in 1985.

*** Terminates Here, 2/5 Memories

Lemn Sissay meets a man who spent 30 years working on the travelling post offices, on which the freezing conditions and the long hours were not as poetic as Auden suggests.

Producer: Philip Sellars

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2007.

*** And Daljit reads from his Poetry Extra Book of the Month:

Transfigurations, Collected Poems by Jay Wright. More than half a century of the African American poet's work is published for the first time in the UK.