Ian McMillan hosts the weekly language and literature cabaret with his usual mixture of high-octane guests and the best of new writing.
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This week on The Verb, Radio 3's weekly cabaret of language and performance, Ian McMillan talks to award winning poet Jackie Kay whose new collection for children is deals with questions of identity, and growing up and - more surprisingly - knitting.
Also on the show two different takes on anonymous London voices. The composer Christopher Fox has set newspaper personal ads to music, creating a twenty first century version of the Cries of London.
Meanwhile, the poet John Seed has reworked the books of Victorian historian Henry Mayhew who recorded the thoughts and views of London streetsellers. Seed has turned the words that Mayhew collected into poetry.
The inimitable Ken Campbell joins Ian with the latest report from his strange adventures in reading, and the thriller writer Robert Ryan has written a brand new story for The Verb about a 1980's New York journalists' dive, with a cameo appearance from Frank Sinatra.
That's all on The Verb, with Ian McMillan, here on Radio 3.
Red, Cherry Red by Jackie Kay is published by Bloomsbury Darling: New and Selected Poems by Jackie Kay is published by Bloodaxe
Pictures from Mayhew and That Barrikins - Pictures from Mayhew II by John Seed are published by Shearsman Press.
Dying Day by Robert Ryan is published by Headline.
Four Arguments For The Elimination of Television by Jerry Mandler is published by Quill
Flicker by Theodore Roszak is published by No Exit Press
