Contains Strong Language Highlights
Spoken word highlights from the UK's biggest festival of poetry and performance.
Passing Words at Contains Strong Language
The Contains Strong Language poets perform their writing in a poetry relay.
Bones
A dreamy film accompanying the audio drama set on the perilous sands of Morecambe Bay.
New Lyrical Ballads at Contains Strong Language
In Wordsworth’s 250th anniversary year, leading poets reinterpret the Lyrical Ballads.
Poetry and performance from Cumbria's Contains Strong Language festival—Front Row
Poets Kate Clanchy, Jacob Polley and Zosia Wand join Katie Popperwell at the festival.
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Wordsworth: Experiments in Living at Contains Strong Language—The Verb
The Verb comes from Grasmere to celebrate the 250th anniversary of Wordsworth's birth.
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1Xtra Words First Showcase
New work on a Protest theme from the UK's most talented spoken word artists aged 18-30.
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Contains Strong Language Live
Luke Wright explores Barrow-in-Furness with the poets the town has inspired. Live from CSL
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Christabel—Drama on 3
Poet Kate Clanchy's contemporary reworking of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem Christabel.
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Emergency—Drama on 4
Emergency by poet Jacob Polley set in Carlisle in 2005 with Joe Dixon as The Storm
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Val Armstrong with Gordon Swindlehurst 26/09/2020—Mid-morning on BBC Radio Cumbria
A special show featuring the BBC's "Contains Strong Language Festival" in Cumbria.
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Landscape & Language: Experiments in Living—The Verb
Record at the Contains Strong Language Festival.
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