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| Adverb, The | ...Poet PAUL FARLEY continues the series of literary performances, recorded in front of a live audience at Cadogan Hall, based on the Proms themes, in which leading writers choose their favourite writings about the sea or fairytales. Plus, a chance to hear specially commissioned original writing about fairytales and the sea.... |
| Auden - Six Unexpected Days | ...Marking the centenary of the birth of W H Auden, poet PAUL FARLEY crosses the Northern Pennines following an itinerary suggested by Auden in an article for American Vogue in 1954. Paul investigates how this once thriving mining area, renowned for its limestone, exerted a powerful influence over the young Auden and how it continued to resonate in his poetry throughout a career which lasted more than half a century.... |
| Between The Ears | ...In PAUL FARLEY's evocative radio poem, three ports - Carthage, LIVERPOOL and Rotterdam - speak to each other across the centuries and down the sea lanes. From the ruins of the great Phoenician harbour, we follow the radar-blip of commerce as it travels on from the abandoned LIVERPOOL dockside to the cranes and containers of Europe's busiest port.... |
| Blood, Sweat, Tears And Poetry | ...Including this year's National Poetry Day Poet in Residence PAUL FARLEY apple picking on a farm in Kent and Cornish performance poet Sally Crabtree stacking tins of poetry in a supermarket in Penzance.... |
| Complete War Poems Of Wilfred Owen | ...PAUL FARLEY introduces readings of Wilfred Owen's poems by Ben Whishaw.... |
| Connecting | ...By PAUL FARLEY.... |
| English Civil War, The | ...By PAUL FARLEY... |
| Hide | ...By PAUL FARLEY.... |
| Homer In A Dudley Accent | ...Louis Macneice lived in Birmingham in the early 1930s, teaching Classics at the university. Despite his ambivalent relationship with the city, the years he spent there were to prove critical in both his personal and poetic life. The poet PAUL FARLEY goes in search of MacNeice's 'hazy city'.... |
| I Wish I'd Looked After Me Teeth | ...Poet PAUL FARLEY chews over the unhappy relationship between poets and their teeth and asks - do bad teeth make good poetry?... |
| Lament Of Swordy Well, The | ...Poet PAUL FARLEY celebrates the work of John Clare through his landmark poem The Lament of Swordy Well, written in the 1830s before Clare was committed to an asylum. Swordy Well, a tract of limestone heath near Clare's home in Northamptonshire, is both the subject and the narrator of the piece. The site, now Swaddywell, is one of scientific interest, and has been preserved for its wildlife and habitat after decades of abuse... |
| Liverpool Locations | ...By PAUL FARLEY.... |
| Poet's Song, A | ...PAUL FARLEY and Jo Shapcott try their hand at writing lyrics for two very different musicians in the contrasting shapes of rapper Doc Brown and pianist Jamie Cullum.... |
| Proms Literary Festival | ...A discussion recorded in front of a Proms audience at the Royal College of Music in which critic and biographer Professor Hermione Lee discusses English Romantic poetry, from Wordsworth to Thomas Hardy. With contributions from Romantic literature expert Professor Duncan Wu as well as Kate Kennedy and poet PAUL FARLEY.... |
| Strange Meetings - Wilfred Owen's Half-known Roads | ...PAUL FARLEY investigates the people and places that shaped Wilfred Owen's life and work.... |
| Trouble With Scousers, The | ...Winifred Robinson examines the stereotypical image of the Liverpudlian. She returns to her home city to talk to fellow Scousers including Willy Russell, PAUL FARLEY and Bel Mooney.... |
| Twenty Minutes - Poetry Proms | ...Jo Shapcott, poet-in-residence at the Proms, introduces the final event from the Serpentine Gallery, in which she reads from her own work, with the poet PAUL FARLEY, including new poems on one of the Proms themes this year, `Celebration'.... |
| Verb, The | ...Ian McMillan brings The Verb to the edge of England with a programme from the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival. There's a new piece with a coastline theme written for the programme by PAUL FARLEY, winner of last year's Whitbread Poetry Award, plus readings and performance from other leading poets at the festival.... |
| When Louise Met George | ...By PAUL FARLEY. Writers George Orwell and Louise MacNeice meet for the first time in 1943. They discuss the effect of the war on their writing and their work for the BBC.... |
| Word On The Street | ...Grasmere, home of the Wordsworth Trust. With Trust director Robert Woof, poet-in-residence PAUL FARLEY, and readings by Barrie Rutter ... |