Talking in Bed

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Across ten programmes and ten Philip Larkin poems, Simon Armitage, the Poet Laureate, finds out what happens when he revisits and unpicks Larkin's work in his centenary year. Episode 3: Simon Armitage explores Philip Larkin's poem Talking in Bed. In Talking in Bed Larkin depicts a couple who are struggling to communicate - to find words 'at once true and kind,/ Or not untrue and not unkind.' Does this poem still speak to us meaningfully about the difficulty of intimate relationships? Producer: Faith Lawrence Mixed by: Sue Stonestreet