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| Archive Hour, The | ...Seventy-five years ago a poem was first read on the BBC National programme. Poet Laureate ANDREW MOTION explores the intense relationship between the muse and the MICROPHONE, drawing on landmark recordings.... |
| Archive On 4 | ...ANDREW MOTION explores and tells the story of the proudest legacy of his time as Poet Laureate, The Poetry Archive - hundreds of poems, read by their authors and all available online, free to everyone.... |
| Bbc Proms 2006 | ...The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh are guests of honour at the Prom. Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Master of the Queen's Music, and ANDREW MOTION, Poet Laureate, have created a special musical birthday present for Her Majesty - a new cantata exploring the themes of constancy and the environment, to be performed by massed children's voices, fanfare trumpeters and orchestra.... |
| Bbc Radio 2 Folk Awards | ...Guest presenters include Nick Park, Louis De Bernieres, ANDREW MOTION, Bill Oddie and Lembit Opik.... |
| Belief | ...ANDREW MOTION, Poet Laureate... |
| Between The Ears | ...Poet Laureate ANDREW MOTION explores the great wilderness on the east coast of the country, known as the Wash.... |
| Book Of Hours, A | ...For National Poetry Day, Radio 4 has commissioned 14 new poems from distinguished writers chosen by the poet laureate ANDREW MOTION, to be broadcast throughout the day. Each poem is about the time of day at which it is heard, and they are all read by the authors. Here, ANDREW MOTION introduces some of the poems, considers the ideas underlying this contemporary book of hours, and contributes a new poem of his own.... |
| Book Of The Month | ...Monthly review programme examining one of the most interesting new publications. In a new biography, ANDREW MOTION reassesses the social and political context of Keats's work. Steve Connor reviews Motion's `Keats' and discusses changing perceptions of the past. Keats has become a byword for the poetic identity - talented, suffering, youthful but wise. From his troubled orphan childhood, through gruelling medical training, thwarted love and early death, his career has acquired a mythic quality. But how far has the fascination with this story concealed the details of his life?... |
| Bookclub | ...ANDREW MOTION... |
| Chaucer's English | ...Poet Laureate ANDREW MOTION and Chaucer specialist Professor Helen Cooper examine the distinctive, radical quality of Chaucer's language.... |
| Elegy | ...Poet Michael Symmons Roberts embarks on a personal exploration of the role of the elegy. He talks to poets Douglas Dunn, Michael Longley and Gillian Clarke about their own elegies and discusses with ANDREW MOTION the challenges of writing elegies at times of public mourning. Michael writes a series of elegies to the elegists of the past and asks whether, in the way it captures lost moments, objects and people, all poetry is elegy.... |
| Eve Of St Agnes, The | ...Keats' atmospheric poem telling the story of the lovers Porphyro and Madeline and their secret meeting on St Agnes Eve - introduced by the poet Laureate ANDREW MOTION.... |
| Feeding Poets | ...Francine Stock chairs a special discussion of poet laureate ANDREW MOTION's proposal that poetry should be brought into people's everyday lives and that the poet laureate should do more than write verse for royal occasions. A panel and members of the public join him to discuss his views.... |
| Fine Lines | ...Christopher Cook talks to poets ANDREW MOTION and Lavinia Greenlaw. When ANDREW MOTION's book of selected poems is published next month, it will contain some earlier pieces which have been rewritten. This is the starting point for a discussion about the business of writing poetry.... |
| Gold Medal Award | ...Poet Laureate ANDREW MOTION speaks to the winner of the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry, announced last week. The winner will be honoured for a lifetime's contribution to poetry.... |
| Great Libraries, The | ...In this great historic library, Joan looks at manuscripts from poets including Percy Shelley, T S Eliot, Philip Larkin and W H Auden. The reader is ANDREW MOTION ... |
| High Flight | ...The programme includes contributions from ANDREW MOTION, veterans of the Royal Canadian Air Force, composer Bob Chilcott and Library of Congress archivist Cheryl Fox.... |
| Iain Burnside | ...Iain is joined by Poet Laureate ANDREW MOTION to dip into a selection of pieces about war, reflecting on the power of music to evoke it. With works by Stravinsky, Elgar, Vaughan Williams and Milhaud.... |
| Invention Of Dr Cake, The | ...By ANDREW MOTION... |
| John Dryden - Inventor Of England | ...Valentine Cunningham explores the life of the poet and dramatist John Dryden, who died 300 years ago this week, and investigates how he used his position as poet laureate during the turbulent Restoration to promote an idea of English cultural nationalism which is still central to the debate about English identity today. Contributors include Christopher Logue, Peter Porter, ANDREW MOTION and Christine Gerrard.... |
| Jubilee Poetry | ...ANDREW MOTION chooses a selection of verses by Poets Laureates past and present, read by Juliet Stevenson, Samantha Bond and Samuel West, in honour of the Golden Jubilee.... |
| Laureate Poems, The | ...From John Dryden To ANDREW MOTION... |
| Letter To Bob On His Miscellaneous 60th Birthday | ...Lifelong fan ANDREW MOTION pays tribute to Bob Dylan on his 60th birthday.... |
| Lyrics Of Bob Dylan, The | ...joining laura in her quest to examine the works, are poet laureate ANDREW MOTION; professor christopher ricks, author of 'dylan's vision of sin'; Nigel Williamson, author of 'the rough guide to Bob Dylan'; dylanologist muchael gray; greenwich village contemporary tom paxton; singer gwyneth herbert; cultural commentator David Quantick; pete shelley of buzzcocks, and mark rudd of revolutionary political agitators the weathermen... |
| Map Of British Poetry, A | ...Poet Laureate ANDREW MOTION presents an exploration of the landscapes of British poetry from its earliest days to the present.... |
| Music Matters | ...He also hears a new Remembrance Sunday commission from Portsmouth Grammar School by Peter Maxwell Davies and ANDREW MOTION ... |
| National Poetry Day | ...To celebrate National Poetry Day, new sonnets commissioned from distinguished poets are being broadcast throughout the day. Each of the 14 poems in `The Windrose' reflects a compass point and is read by its author. ANDREW MOTION, Poet Laureate, who chose the participants, introduces some of the poems, considers the ideas underlying `The Windrose' and reads his own contribution.... |
| New Lines | ...Poet Laureate ANDREW MOTION introduces readings by five new unpublished poets, shortlisted in a competition in partnership with the Arts Council.... |
| Poetry Please | ...01: When daffodils begin to peer (from The Winter's Tale) - Shakespeare [0.39] 02: The crusader returns from captivity - G. K. Chesterton [2.23] 03: The pylons - Stephen Spender [1.12] read by the poet 04: John of Gaunt's dying speech (from Richard II) - Shakespeare [2.30] 05: Anne Frank huis - ANDREW MOTION [1.27] 06: Retrospect - Rupert Brooke [1.50]... |
| Proms Plus | ...Former poet laureate ANDREW MOTION introduces a personal choice of poems by another poet Laureate, Alfred Tennyson. Actress Fiona Shaw performs Andrew's choices, including excerpts from In Memoriam and The Lady of Shallot in front of an audience at the Royal College of Music.... |
| Rhapsody Of Rags - An Anatomy Of Robert Burton | ...Kevin Jackson discusses Robert Burton's 17th-century masterpiece `The Anatomy of Melancholy', one of the first treatises to address the mind and madness in depth. With contributions from psychotherapist Adam Phillips, Burton scholars Martin Dodsworth and Jonathan Sawday, writers Alan Sillitoe and Alexander Theroux and poet laureate ANDREW MOTION. Plus readings by John Sessions ... |
| Searching For Alfred In The Shadow Of Tennyson | ...Championing him as a poet for our times as well as his own, Ruth talks to figures as diverse as poet and former Laureate ANDREW MOTION, novelists Andrew O' Hagan and Adam Foulds, poet Jo Shapcott, rock musician Dani Filth, and academics Robert Douglas-Fairhurst and Angela Leighton. She hears how the figure of Tennyson has been an inspiration to them.... |
| Sitting Pretty | ...Jilly Sutton sculpts poet laureate ANDREW MOTION ... |
| Something Understood | ...A special edition of the programme to mark the 10th anniversary of the UN Convention for the Rights of the Child. The UN's special representative for children and armed conflict, Ugandan Olara Otunnu, chooses words and music spanning cultures and continents, including ANDREW MOTION's visit to Anne Frank's Huis, and an early performance by Yehudi Menuhin ... |
| Twenty Minutes - Poetry Proms | ...Jo Shapcott presents poetry readings recorded before an audience at the Serpentine featuring specially commissioned poems focusing on themes highlighted in this year's Proms. This evening's theme is `Youth and Age'. With ANDREW MOTION and U A Fanthorpe ... |
| Verb, The | ...Ian McMillan explores protest writing with poet laureate ANDREW MOTION and Robert Wyatt. Plus Longshore Drift, a poem by Matrina Porteous.... |
| Wainewright The Poisoner | ...By Peter Straughan, based on the biography by ANDREW MOTION. From a hospital in the penal colony of Tasmania, Thomas Griffiths Wainewright, painter and writer, looks back over his controversial life. With Nigel Hawthorne, Alex Jennings, Toby Jones and Eli / By Peter Straughan, based on the biography by ANDREW MOTION. From a hospital in the penal colony of Tasmania, Thomas Griffiths Wainewright, painter and writer, looks back over his controversial life. With Nigel Hawthorne, Alex Jennings, Toby Jones and Elizabeth Bell. Directed by Sue Roberts.... |
| What Will Survive Of Us | ...ANDREW MOTION introduces and reads poems which explore the twinned themes of loss and love. His personal selection for the programme includes elegies by Thomas Nash, Tennyson, and Philip Larkin; and love poetry by Andrew Marvell, Christina Rossetti and Louis MacNiece.... |
| What's So Great About ? | ...Poet Laureate ANDREW MOTION has described Dylan as the greatest living artist in any medium, a claim which Lenny subjects to much ridicule. Can he be convinced otherwise? Contributors include Kris Kristofferson, Jools Holland, Bryan Ferry, Al Kooper and ANDREW MOTION ... |
| Word Of Mouth | ...Michael Rosen returns for the summer run of the programme about English and the way we speak. 1: `Past, Present and Fast Forward'. Including poet laureate ANDREW MOTION on 1000 years of English, the vogue for voice-training workshops, and superfluous jarg.... |
| Work In Progress - Andrew Motion | |
| Work In Progress | ...ANDREW MOTION talks about his new poem `In Memory Louise Oliphant'.... |
| Write Stuff, The | ...James Walton takes the chair for the game of literary correctness, flanked by captains Sebastian Faulks and John Walsh with guests Sue Limb and ANDREW MOTION. The author of the week and subject for pastiche is Seamus Heaney and the reader is Beth Chalmers ... |
| Writers Choice | ...by Peter Carey, read by Michael Maloney. The enigmatic tale of a great artist's last performance. Chosen by ANDREW MOTION ... |
| Writing Poetry | ...1: The Sonnet. Guest poets Wendy Cope and Jo Shapcott join the poet laureate, ANDREW MOTION, to discuss writing sonnets. Examples range from Shakespeare to their own work.... |