Greek Myths
Saturday 17 July 2004 21:15-22:00 (Radio 3)
Ian McMillan presents the last in a series of new commissions in which contemporary writers look again at the Greek myths. And, fifty years after it was written, Ian celebrates Philip Larkin's poem Churchgoing. Also featuring a new piece by Ken Campbell.
Programme Details
Lawrence Norfolk, author of 'Lempiere's Dictionary' (published by Minerva), 'The Pope's Rhinoceros' (published by Minerva), and 'In The Shape of a Boar' (published by Orion), takes up the torch for the finishing strait with the last in our series of commissions based on Greek Myths, 'Heroic Cookery for Beginners, or Roasting the Boar of Kalydon'.
Tom Paulin, Margaret Drabble, and Richard Harries, The Bishop of Oxford, celebrate the 50th anniversary of Larkin's poem Church Going. Larkin's 'Collected Poems' is published by Faber.
Emma Jane Kirby, BBC correspondent in Brussels, and Jack Lonergan, Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Westminster join Ian to explore the language of diplomacy, and the use of 'Bruxellish' in our EU institutions.
Geraldine Monk reads some poems from her new collection 'She Kept Birds' (published by Slack Buddha Press in the USA but distributed here by West House Books), poems made entirely from birds names.
And the inimitable Ken Campbell finishes his latest Verb residencey with an interrogation of Nouf language.
