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| Accidental Beauties Of Silly Songs | ...Including interviews with Stephen Spender's widow Lady Natasha Spender, the poet PETER PORTER, archive of Stravinsky and commentary from Auden himself.... |
| Beanz Meanz Rhymz | ...He speaks to PETER PORTER about how his former work as a copywriter influences his attitude to poetry and visits an ad agency to find out how people working in advertising view the role of language, rhythm and rhyme in persuading people to buy goods.... |
| Book Of The Month | ...The Collected Poems Of PETER PORTER... |
| Fine Lines | ...Poetry and conversation with Christopher Cook, whose guests Fleur Adcock and PETER PORTER both lived on the other side of the world - in New Zealand and Australia - before settling here. How has this affected their poetry?... |
| Hurry Up Please Its Time | ...T S Eliot described his poem `The Waste Land' as `just a piece of rhythmical grumbling', but it has become one of the most discussed and imitated works of the century. Valentine Cunningham investigates its wide-ranging influence with the help of writers Blake Morrison, PETER PORTER, Iain Sinclair, Malcolm Bradbury and Emanuel Litvinoff, actress Fiona Shaw and composer George Benjamin.... |
| 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.... |
| On Auden | ...PETER PORTER explores Auden's plays and libretti. He looks at The Dog Beneath the Skin, written with Christopher Isherwood, and the libretto of Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress. Porter believes that in addition to Auden's stature as one of the 20th Century's finest lyric poets, these works guarantee his place among the finest dramatic writers.... |
| Opera In Action | ...The series continues with eight programmes in which the poet PETER PORTER reflects on opera, of which he is a lifelong enthusiast. 1: `The Poet, the Philosopher and the Cynic'. Thoughts about the representation of poets on the stage, with excerpts from Puccini: La boheme; Wagner: The Mastersingers; Mozart: Cosi fan tutte; and Purcell: The Fairy Queen.... |
| Poems From The Proms | ...This includes an anonymous salute to Sir Henry Wood, a satire to the tune of Jerusalem, as well as poems by Jo Shapcott, PETER PORTER and Seamus Heaney. The reader is Tom Durham.... |
| Poetry Please | ...Featured works include Carol Ann Duffy's Elvis's Twin Sister, which imagines a sibling for Elvis Presley as a nun, rocking in her wimple, and poems by Anna Akhmatova, PETER PORTER and Douglas Dunn.... |
| Selected Poets | ...PETER PORTER introduces poetry from the BBC archives. Featuring Sylvia Plath from `The Living Poet' series, first broadcast in 1961, and Louis Macneice reading `Prayer Before Birth' and `Autumn Journal' in 1949.... |
| Verb, The | ...Ian Mcmillan is joined by poet PETER PORTER to discuss the work of Nobel Literary Laureate, Australian author Patrick White. Also featuring singer songwriter Thea Gilmore, and a new story from novelist Bethan Roberts.... |
| Wagner Effect, The | ...Christopher Cook seeks to reveal the seemingly irresistible allure and enduring power of Richard Wagner's drama, thought and music. He talks to musicians whose working lives are dedicated to the composer's art and to other artists who have been touched by the Wagner effect. With contributions from poet PETER PORTER, conductor Mark Elder, singers Anne Evans and John Tomlinson, opera director Richard Jones, composers Steve Martland and Judith Weir, and painter David Hockney.... |
| Work In Progress - Peter Porter | |
| Work In Progress | ...The poet PETER PORTER talks about the work he has been inspired to produce while poet in residence for this year's Proms season.... |