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The Beauty of Everyday Things

Poet Ian McMillan explores the beauty of everyday things, places and encounters and discovers different ways of thinking and feeling that can make the ordinary extraordinary .

Poet Ian McMillan has a gift for the art of small pleasures; the joy of close observation; revelling in everyday things, places and encounters; describing and re-describing them endlessly. In the company of fellow poets Helen Mort, Steve Ely and Dave Green he takes us to ordinary places that fascinate him: a railway platform with a striking red bench, on a bus journey, to a village cafe, and a local museum of curiosities; where we discover they can be portals into different ways of thinking, of feeling, and of being, where anything can happen, where the ordinary can become the extraordinary if we simply open our eyes and our ears.

Presented by Ian McMillan

Produced by Cecile Wright

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28 minutes

Last on

Fri 21 Jun 2024 23:30

Broadcasts

  • Sun 26 May 2024 19:15
  • Fri 21 Jun 2024 23:30

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