Main content
This programme will be available shortly after broadcast

Our Souls So Knit

Daljit Nagra selects Our Souls So Knit with Caroline Bird exploring the story behind Victorian poet Michael Field. From 2021.

Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's poetry archive and selects Our Souls So Knit. And Daljit reads from his Poetry Extra Book of the Month: Somewhere There Is a Sky For Us by the Queer Muslim Project.

Poet Caroline Bird is on a mission to uncover the extraordinary story behind Victorian poet Michael Field, who was actually two women, Katherine Bradley and Edith Cooper. Friends and contemporaries of Robert Browning and Oscar Wilde, the women were aunt and niece, but also lovers.

Producer for BBC Audio in Bristol: Sally Heaven

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2021.

Release date:

30 minutes

On radio

Sun 1 Feb 202607:00

Broadcasts

  • Sun 1 Feb 202607:00
  • Sun 1 Feb 202612:00
  • Sun 1 Feb 202618:00
  • Mon 2 Feb 202602:00