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Poetry Extra Episodes

  1. David Walliams on Philip Larkin

    Daljit Nagra introduces David Walliams on Philip Larkin.

  2. Paul Celan in Mapesbury Road

    Daljit Nagra introduces Paul Celan in Mapesbury Road - Europe's master elegist.

  3. Crazy For Love - Layla and the Mad Poet

    Daljit Nagra introduces Crazy for Love, one of the greatest Middle East love stories.

  4. Cold War Poet

    Daljit Nagra on how Dylan Thomas' poetry sustained a generation of East Germans.

  5. We Real Cool - The Poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks

    The poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks with the voices of her friends and family.

  6. Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus - Dancing the Orange

    Daljit Nagra introduces the story of a great modern masterpiece.

  7. A Notebook on Aim茅 C茅saire

    Daljit Nagra introduces A Notebook on Aim茅 C茅saire, a portrait of Martinique's famous son.

  8. Radio Heaney

    Daljit Nagra introduces the County Derry poet Seamus Heaney and his love for the wireless.

  9. Ko Un - The People's Poet of Korea

    Daljit Nagra looks abroad for inspiration and introduces Ko Un - People's Poet of Korea.

  10. Walking With Whitman

    Daljit Nagra introduces the father of American Literature, Walt Whitman.

  11. Consorting with Angels

    Daljit Nagra introduces Consorting with Angels, featuring model and poet, Anne Sexton.

  12. Lost Voices - Rosemary Tonks

    Daljit Nagra introduces Lost Voices featuring Rosemary Tonks.

  13. Lost Voices - Dom Moraes

    Daljit Nagra introduces Lost Voices featuring Indian poet Dom Moraes.

  14. Lost Voices - WH Davies

    Daljit Nagra introduces Lost Voices featuring the travelling, nature-loving poet WH Davies

  15. With Great Pleasure - Les Murray

    Les Murray's pick of prose and poetry read by Sean Barrett and Sally Cookson.

  16. With Great Pleasure - Sean O'Brien

    Sean O'Brien's pick of prose and poetry read by Julia Watson and Deka Walmsley.

  17. With Great Pleasure - Jo Shapcott

    Poet Jo Shapcott's favourite literature read by Christian Rodska and Mark Meadows.

  18. With Great Pleasure - Don Paterson

    Daljit Nagra introduces 'With Great Pleasure' from the Summer 2006 Ledbury Poetry Festival

  19. The Echo Chamber - Solsticial

    Daljit Nagra introduces The Echo Chamber with Alice Oswald's poem 'Tithonus'.

  20. The Echo Chamber - The Poet, the Poem, and the Savannah

    Glyn Maxwell, poet and author of On Poetry, discusses his work. Presented by Paul Farley.

  21. The Echo Chamber - Clive James

    Clive James reads his staring-death-in-the-face poems with Paul Farley.

  22. The Echo Chamber - Middle Age

    Are the middle years tough for poets? With poems from Muldoon and Kathleen Jamie.

  23. The Echo Chamber - The Knowledge

    Daljit Nagra introduces The Echo Chamber in which Paul Farley does the Knowledge.

  24. Poetry Please: The Eve of St Agnes

    Daljit Nagra introduces Lindsay Duncan reading Keats's erotic and magical poem.

  25. Poetry Please: The Ballad of Reading Gaol

    Daljit Nagra introduces an edition featuring Oscar Wilde's The Ballad of Reading Gaol.

  26. Poetry Please: Altered States

    Daljit Nagra introduces an edition featuring poetry to take you into altered states.

  27. Poetry Please: Goblin Market

    An edition featuring works by Christina Rossetti, including Goblin Market.

  28. Poetry of History - Di Great Insohreckshan

    Linton Kwesi Johnson's poem explains Brixton's cultural and political upheaval of 1981.

  29. Adventures in Poetry - Kubla Khan

    Peggy Reynolds explores the appeal of one of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's greatest poems.

  30. Derek Walcott - A Fortunate Traveller

    Nobel Laureate poet Derek Walcott talks about his life and work.

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