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| Adventures In Poetry | ...by JOHN DONNE. The poem is discussed by poets, schoolboys and the caretaker of a garden.... |
| Aire And Angels | ...The 17th-century poet JOHN DONNE's earliest love poems were inspired by his longings for the young niece of his employer. Their secret romance was to suffer many separations and setbacks.... |
| All The Rage | ...this edition recreates the flavour of the decade 1600 to 1610 through song and conversation with John Carey and Peter Holman. Songs, including JOHN DONNE's first publication, are sung by Ian Partridge.... |
| Benjamin Britten - In Memoriam | ...The Holy Sonnets of JOHN DONNE ... |
| Blithe Spirits | ...Joanna Pinnock tries to determine why small things, such as JOHN DONNE's flea and William Blake's fly, have often inspired great verse.... |
| In Our Time | ...Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the metaphysical poets, a diffuse group of 17th-century writers that included JOHN DONNE and Andrew Marvell. With Tom Healy, Tom Cain and Julie Sanders.... |
| Map Of British Poetry, A | ...With contributions from Tom Phillips and Abdulrazak Gurnah, and poems by Robert Browning, Arthur Hugh Clough, Paul Muldoon, Edward Lear, JOHN DONNE, Moniza Alvi, DH Lawrence, and Sir Walter Raleigh. Read by Simon Russell Beale, Iain Glen, Kenneth Cranham, Tom Courtenay and Jamie Glover.... |
| Performance On 3 | ...John Adams, the BBCSO's Artist in Association, conducts his modern classic Harmonium, a setting of words by JOHN DONNE and Emily Dickinson for large chorus and orchestra. And the young Finnish violinist Pekka Kuusisto plays the earlier and less well-known of Bartok's two violin concertos. Presented by Paul Guinery.... |
| Poetry Please | ...01: Song - Rupert Brook [0.34] 02: Spring flowers - James Thomson [1.40] 03: The motor bus - A. C. Godley [0.50] 04: Himalayan balsam - Anne Stevenson [2.40] 05: A valediction - JOHN DONNE [1.40] 06: The green eye of the yellow god - J. Milton Hayes [2.45]... |
| Verb, The | ...Ian McMillan presents the language, literature and performance show. This week, the building blocks of all writing: letters. From calligraphy to typefaces, via cursive scripts, ligatures and illumination, Ian goes in search of the character of characters with Edward Docx, whose first novel The Calligrapher combines an obsession with JOHN DONNE with a tour of the letter writer's art. And what's in a name? How did you get your name? How has it affected you? Have you a secret name? Why do you hide it? Ian McMillan investigates.... |
| Voice Of The Archangel, The | ...Ian McDiarmid reads a selection of passages from the eloquent and impassioned sermons of JOHN DONNE, ranging from fire-and-brimstone images of hell to awe at the glory of heaven.... |
| Voices | ...Britten: The Holy Sonnets of JOHN DONNE... |
| What I Learned From The Metaphysical Poets | ...Short stories inspired by the poetry of JOHN DONNE, George Herbert and Andrew Marvell.... |
| With Great Pleasure | ...With the help of readers Andrew Sachs, Pippa Haywood and Michael Elwyn, she introduces literary delights ranging from Jane Austen to Philip Roth, and from JOHN DONNE to Hilaire Belloc. She also explains why she is haunted by an ironing board.... |
| Words And Music | ...A sequence of music and poetry evoking states of rapture. Religious ecstasy is explored through poems by JOHN DONNE and George Herbert, and music by Messiaen and Robert Carver. The Romantic obsession with the mind-altering power of the outdoor world is reflected in works by Wordsworth and Schubert.... |