Poetry on 4
A selection of programmes and clips relating to poets and their poetry.
History of Metaphor—In Our Time
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of metaphor.
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Siegfried Sassoon—In Our Time
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the war poet Siegfried Sassoon.
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Peter Hook talks to John Cooper Clarke—Chain Reaction, Series 7
The tag talk show: Peter Hook talks to John Cooper Clarke.
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Seamus Heaney—Front Row
Poet and Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney is in conversation with Mark Lawson.
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Sir Andrew Motion—Ramblings, Inspirational Walks
Clare Balding is joined by the former poet laureate Sir Andrew Motion.
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The Waste Land and Modernity—In Our Time
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss TS Eliot's seminal poem The Waste Land.
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Yeats and Mysticism—In Our Time
Melvyn Bragg explores the strange and mystical world of the Irish poet W B Yeats.
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Carol Ann Duffy—Bookclub
James Naughtie's guest is Carol Ann Duffy, one of the most widely read British poets.
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Greek and Roman Love Poetry—In Our Time
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Greek and Roman love poetry.
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Simon Armitage—Bookclub
Simon Armitage discusses his translation of the epic poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
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The Metaphysical Poets—In Our Time
Melvyn Bragg examines the Metaphysical poets, including John Donne and Andrew Marvell.
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Ian McMillan—Desert Island Discs
Poet and broadcaster Ian McMillan joins Kirsty Young to choose his Desert Island Discs.
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson—Great Lives
Andrew Motion champions the life of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Poet Laureate for over 40 years
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Sappho—Great Lives
Greek poet Sappho - intellectual or vamp?
Rudyard Kipling—Great Lives
John Major discusses the life of Rudyard Kipling, poet to the British Empire.
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Derek Walcott—The Echo Chamber, Series 3
Paul Farley presents a conversation about poems and flying fish with Derek Walcott.
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Tennyson's In Memoriam—In Our Time
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poem In Memoriam.
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Bleached Bone and Living Wood
Christine Finn visits the house that was the poet Wilfred Owen's final refuge in France.
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Christina Rossetti—In Our Time
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Victorian poet Christina Rossetti.
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Lyrical Ballads—In Our Time
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Wordsworth and Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads.
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