7 January 2006
Saturday 7 January 2006 21:15-22:00 (Radio 3)
Second of two programmes in which Ian MacMillan looks back over the best writing and performances broadcast by The Verb in the past twelve months.
Programme Details
As we start the new year Ian McMillan looks back over the old one and casts his sights across a year packed with verbal treats.
Join The Verb for the second half of a special compilation celebrating the highlights of the programme's commissioned new writing and poetry of the past twelve months.
Listen again to some of the most moving and memorable moments of the year: be it the uplifting exuberance of Senegalese Rappers, Daara Jay; the chilling horror of Ros Barber's gentle bathtime tale; the crazed characterizations of Michael McGill; the touching elegy to New Orleans from singer Barb Jungr; the comic disquisition on Macbeth from Ken Campbell; or the truly touching reflection on loss from Fiona Sampson. Not to mention, of course, stories from Chimamanda Adichie on her Nigeria roots, Dubravka Ugresic's child's eye search for truth in the Balkans, or Sarah Hall's parable for modern times in the Cumbrian fells.
Oh yes, it's been a rich and varied year indeed, and that's just some of what you can expect if you tune in to The Verb with Ian McMillan at the earlier than usual time of 9.15pm here on BBC Radio 3.
Producers: Emma Wallace and Zahid Warley
