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| And Did Those Feet? | ...Two hundred years ago William Blake wrote the words to what has become Britain's unofficial but best loved anthem. In this programme the poet and critic TOM PAULIN tells the story of Jerusalem.... |
| Archive Hour, The | ...Poet and critic TOM PAULIN explores the history of conversation, from the teaching dialogue of Socrates and Plato to the factory-floor gossip of nineties sitcoms. With illustrations from Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, Sir Isaiah BERLIN and Harry Enfield ... |
| Coming To Terms, The | ...As the second anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement approaches, poet Paul Muldoon investigates whether the Northern IRELAND peace process has been influenced by writers and artists on both sides of the border. Contributors include Seamus Heaney, Neil Jordan, Medbh McGuckian, TOM PAULIN, Patrick McCabe and Glenn Patterson. How far have artists helped to create the terms of peace?... |
| Coming To Terms | ...Just over two years on from the Good Friday Agreement, poet Paul Muldoon investigates whether the Northern IRELAND peace process has been influenced by writers and artists on both sides of the border. Contributors include Seamus Heaney, Neil Jordan, Medbh McGuckian, TOM PAULIN, Patrick McCabe and Glenn Patterson. How far have artists helped to create the terms of peace?... |
| Critic! | ...What is the role of the literary critic? Two current critics have new books on two giants from the past. TOM PAULIN and Ian Hamilton discuss William Hazlitt and Matthew Arnold. With contributions from Christopher Ricks and Geoffrey Hill. `Critic!' is the final insult in a long slanging match at the heart of Samuel Beckett's `Waiting for Godot'. Artists have long been sceptical of critical judgement and hostile to the critical profession, yet the greatest critics have been artists themselves.... |
| Fine Lines | ...TOM PAULIN and leading Polish poet Piotr Sommer take a look at poetry in Poland.... |
| Five Poems For 50 Years | ...by TOM PAULIN. TOM PAULIN is distinguished as a critic as well as a poet. His poem is an autobiography in sound, ranging from bomb blasts in Belfast to the sound of someone wearing hobnailed boots walking down a lane in winter.... |
| Goblin Market | ...TOM PAULIN introduces a reading of Christina Rossetti's poem of 1862, a story of passion, faith and sisterhood.... |
| Ian Mcmillan's Writing Lab | ...Ian Mcmillan hosts the creative writing series. He is joined by poet and critic Mark Ford to discuss the vexed question of poetic form. Should the apprentice poet let their verse range free or conform to the creative restrictions of a structured format? Tips and advice are offered by leading poets TOM PAULIN, Wendy Cope and Michael Rosen ... |
| John Milton, The Essayist | ...Poet TOM PAULIN responds to Milton's Second Defence of the English People - a response to a royalist treatise - revealing how profound was Milton's republican thinking, and how Paradise Lost is a republican as well as religious poem.... |
| Landscape Without White Bungalow | ...Donegal has become a very fashionable place to holiday. Poet and broadcaster TOM PAULIN has a holiday home there - how does he square the desire to have a home in this beautiful landscape, with the change that property can make to it?... |
| Paulin On Blake | ...On the 250th anniversary of the birth of William Blake, TOM PAULIN presents a series of spoken essays exploring the life and works of the great non-conformist English visionary, poet and artist.... |
| Poetry Of History, The | ...Jonathan travels to Manchester, the scene of the 1819 Peterloo massacre that provoked Shelley's ferocious attack on the government of the day, The Mask of Anarchy. Poet TOM PAULIN and Historian Clive Emsley are on hand to measure the weight of the poem as history and as verse.... |
| Postscript | ...Following the example of W H Auden's `Letter to Lord Byron', five poets read a newly commissioned verse letter to a poet from the past whom they admire. 1: TOM PAULIN reads his letter to John Clare called `The Writing Lark'.... |
| Shakespeare Lecture | ...TOM PAULIN argues that the meaning of Shakespeare's sonnets is best understood by listening carefully to their acoustic effects, talking in detail about sonnets 15, 19, 33, 44, 73 and 80.... |
| Sound Of Sound, The | ...The striking of a match, a stone breaking the surface of water, the cry of an animal, a door closing - TOM PAULIN listens to the evocative - and sometimes deceptive - imagery of sound in poetry.... |
| Staging Ireland | ...Contributors include Seamus Heaney, TOM PAULIN, Stephen Rea and Seamus Deane.... |
| Studio 3 | ...By TOM PAULIN. When Prometheus seizes the fire of ideas and threatens to give it to the humans, Zeus, fearing the loss of power, binds him for all eternity... |
| Verb, The | ...Ian Mcmillan introduces a new series for The Verb in which the TOM PAULIN explores the Secret Life of the Poem. Over the next four weeks he will be looking behind the stanzas of seemingly familiar poetry and revealing the hidden histories and meanings behind them, beginning today with He Fumbles At Your Soul by Emily Dickinson. Ian will also be marking the 40th anniversary of the death of T S Eliot with a reassessment of his reputation as a dramatist.... |
| Work In Progress - Tom Paulin | |
| Work In Progress | ...A new daily series in which artists talk about their current work. In this week's five programmes, poet TOM PAULIN talks about a new long poem he is writing about the Second World War. As well as writing about great moments in history, TOM PAULIN considers unremembered individuals and themes of nationalism and patriotism.... |