麻豆约拍

Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the 麻豆约拍's radio poetry archive and chooses Time For Verse: Carol Ann Duffy; Three Score and Ten with the former National Poet of Wales Gillian Clarke; and Blithe Spirits looks at verse inspired by birds.

The last of five programmes in which George MacBeth talks with the poet and occasional playwright Carol Ann Duffy.
Reader Lin Sagovsky.
Producer Alec Reid.
First broadcast on 麻豆约拍 Radio 4 in 1989.

Three Score And Ten - Gillian Clarke [Radio 3, 29/11/2016]
Ian McMillan with another episode in the series introducing former National Poet of Wales, Gillian Clarke reading her poems The Beginning and Flood from a Twenty Minutes Poetry Prom broadcast in 2002.
Producer: Sharon Sephton
First broadcast on 麻豆约拍 Radio 4 in 2002.

Blithe Spirits 1/5
Birds. Our impressions of historical attitudes to wildlife are often gained by reading poetry, but how accurate a picture were the poets painting? Even as Keats and Shelley were writing their verse on skylarks and nightingales, thousands of Shelley's ""Blithe Spirits"" were being caught each year for the pot. Joanna PINNOCK explores the works of the romantic poets and asks whether they really knew their natural history.
Produced by Brett WESTWOOD.
First broadcast on 麻豆约拍 Radio 4 in 2001.