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Radio 4 Extra,01 Feb 2026,30 mins

Our Souls So Knit

Poetry Extra

Available for 29 days

Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's poetry archive and selects Our Souls So Knit. Poet Caroline Bird is on a mission to uncover the extraordinary story behind Victorian poet Michael Field, who was actually two women, Katherine Bradley and Edith Cooper. Friends and contemporaries of Robert Browning and Oscar Wilde, the women were aunt and niece, but also lovers. Producer for BBC Audio in Bristol: Sally Heaven First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2021. ***** Daljit also reads from his Poetry Extra Book of the Month: Somewhere There Is a Sky For Us by the Queer Muslim Project.

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