Poetry Extra Episodes Episode guide
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Broken Paradise
Daljit Nagra introduces 'Broken Paradise' - poetry from Sri Lanka's bitter civil war.
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Lost Voices - Molly Holden
Daljit Nagra introduces Lost Voices featuring image maker Molly Holden.
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Fine Lines- Selima Hill and Matthew Sweeney
Daljit Nagra chooses Fine Lines with writers Selima Hill and Matthew Sweeney.
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Fine Lines: Seamus Heaney
Daljit Nagra chooses chooses 'Fine Lines' with Nobel Prize-winning writer Seamus Heaney.
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The Living Poet - Fleur Adcock
Daljit Nagra chooses 'The Living Poet', featuring New Zealand poet, Fleur Adcock.
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The Echo Chamber - The Body
Poet-in-Residence Daljit Nagra introduces The Echo Chamber - about the shapes of poems.
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A Poet's Song
Poet-in-Residence Daljit Nagra chooses A Poet's Song, with Paul Farley and Jo Shapcott.
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Poetry Proms: Andrew Motion and UA Fanthorpe
Daljit Nagra selects Poetry Proms with Andrew Motion and UA Fanthorpe and Last Word.
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Dunstanburgh Castle: A Secret as Old as the Stones
Daljit Nagra chooses Katrina Porteus' work about the mysterious castle on the coast.
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Fine Lines: Tony Harrison and Sean O'Brien
Daljit Nagra selects Fine Lines, featuring Tony Harrison and Sean O'Brien.
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No-One Left and No-One Came
Daljit Nagra selects Edward Thomas's No-One Left and No-One Came.
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John Clare: Under the Influence and Thinking on Their Feet
Daljit Nagra chooses the poetry of John Clare.
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I'm A Lumberjack
Daljit Nagra chooses 'I'm A Lumberjack' featuring peripatetic Englishman James Lasdun.
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Street Reach Girls
Daljit Nagra chooses 'Street Reach Girls', presented by Barnsley poet Ian MacMillan.
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Poems from the Pennines
Poet Simon Armitage takes us on a journey to the Stanza Stones.
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The Women of Rainer Maria Rilke
Daljit Nagra introduces The Women of Rainer Maria Rilke, presented by Hayley Radford.
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Gwyneth Lewis - How To Knit A Poem 2/2
Gwyneth Lewis connects maths, knitting and poetry.
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Gwyneth Lewis - How To Knit A Poem 1/2
Gwyneth Lewis explores the appeal of the craft in How to Knit a Poem.
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Poetry of David Gascoyne
Daljit Nagra introduces A Burning Sound: The Poetry of David Gascoyne.
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Nobody Told Me to Oil My Boots
Daljit Nagra introduces Nobody Told Me To Oil My Boots, presented by Sir Antony Sher.
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The House I Grew Up In
Daljit Nagra introduces The House I Grew Up In, featuring Jackie Kay in Glasgow.
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A Foreigner Everywhere
Daljit Nagra introduces a profile of poet Elizabeth Bishop.
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Electric Polyolbion
Poet and broadcaster Paul Farley's envisages Michael Drayton's Poly-Olbion.
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The Poet of Sparty Lea. In Search of Barry MacSweeney
Daljit Nagra selects The Poet of Sparty Lea spotlighting Northumberland's Barry MacSweeney
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Ursula Vaughan Williams, Poet and Muse
Daljit Nagra chooses creative collaborator Ursula Vaughan Williams.
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Paul Durcan - Christmas Day 3/3
Daljit Nagra selects the final part of Paul Durcan's reading of his poem 'Christmas Day'.
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Paul Durcan - Christmas Day 2/3
Daljit Nagra selects Paul Durcan's reading of his poem Christmas Day.
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Paul Durcan - Christmas Day
Daljit Nagra selects Paul Durcan's reading of his poem Christmas Day.
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Lyrical Ballads - 5/5 Man and Nature
Daljit Nagra selects Postscript - Lyrical Ballads: Man and Nature.
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Lyrical Ballads - 4/5 Conversation and Collaboration
Daljit Nagra selects Postscript - Lyrical Ballads: Conversation and Collaboration.