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The Verb Episodes

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    Writing Technology - Experiments in Living

    Isy Suttie and other writers on how technology shapes our time and thinking.

  2. Pausing and Punctuation - Experiments in Living

    Ian McMillan punctuates with Kei Miller, Angela Leighton, Eley Williams and Kate Fox.

  3. Determination in Writing - Experiments in Living

    Ian McMillan is joined by guests including Paula Byrne and Iona Lee.

  4. Planets - Experiments in Living

    Planets and poetry with Ian McMillan and guests including Bettany Hughes and JO Morgan.

  5. Spring Poetry: ambivalence and beauty

    Ian McMillan is joined by Paul Farley, Caleb Femi and Penelope Lively to celebrate spring.

  6. Writing at 蜜芽传媒 - Experiments in Living

    Ian McMillan on 'writing at home' with Maggie O'Farrell and Brian Bilston.

  7. The Great Gatsby

    Ian McMillan is joined by Sarah Churchwell, Inua Ellams, LJ Rich and Jonathan Bate.

  8. Gratitude - Experiments in Living

    Ian McMillan with Michael Symmons Roberts, Leafcutter John, Jack Bernhardt and Kate Fox.

  9. Language, Fashion and Textiles - Experiments in Living

    With Linda Grant, Kassia St Clair, Amy Key, plus new drama from Lettie Precious.

  10. Crime

    Ian McMillan and guests explore the challenge of crime writing.

  11. The Walk

    Ian McMillan, Testament and Ira Lightman explore words and walking.

  12. T.S. Eliot Prize

    Ian McMillan presents readings from poets shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize.

  13. Writing the Weather - Experiments in Living

    Ian McMillan talks to Jenny Offill, Alice Oswald and Wayne Binitie about weather language.

  14. Optimism in Stories for Children - Experiments in Living

    Ian McMillan with Frank Cottrell-Boyce, Gaia Vince, Smriti Halls and Kate Fox.

  15. Christmas Lights Verb - Experiments in Living

    The Christmas Verb, with Floella Benjamin, John Cooper Clarke and Susie Dent.

  16. Brazil - Experiments in Living

    Ian McMillan鈥檚 guests celebrate and explore the writers of Brazil.

  17. Margaret Atwood - Experiments in Living

    Ian McMillan talks to Margaret Atwood about her writing process.

  18. Zero-Growth Writing - Experiments in Living

    Zero-Growth with Yanis Varoufakis, Patrick McGuinness, Jade Cuttle and Seren Griffiths.

  19. Green Memoir - Experiments in Living

    Ian McMillan and guests on 'green' memoir, our intimacy with landscape and its language.

  20. The Changing Language of Veganism: Experiments in Living

    With Benjamin Zephaniah, Jonathan Safran Foer, Agustina Bazterrica and Rachael Allen

  21. Comedy writing in difficult times: Experiments in Living

    Ian McMillan is joined by Ben Schott, Kate Fox, Grainne Maguire and Matt Winning

  22. The Poetry of Walls: Inside Out at the Southbank Centre

    New poetry inspired by the limestone and concrete walls of London's Southbank Centre.

  23. Oil Stories - Experiments in Living

    Ian McMillan and guests look at the way poets have written about oil and the oil industry.

  24. Claudia Rankine - Experiments in Living

    Ian McMillan is joined by the American poet Claudia Rankine to explore her writing.

  25. Landscape & Language: Experiments in Living

    Record at the Contains Strong Language Festival.

  26. Wordsworth: Experiments in Living at Contains Strong Language

    The Verb comes from Grasmere to celebrate the 250th anniversary of Wordsworth's birth.

  27. Nature Poetry: Experiments in Living

    With Simon Armitage, Moniza Alvi and Jade Cuttle

  28. Salman Rushdie

    Ian McMillan talks to Salman Rushdie about his writing process and 'cancel culture'.

  29. Domestic Violence - in language, myths, and fairy stories

    Ian McMillan and guests on the language and myths of domestic violence.

  30. The Ledbury Festival

    With Carolyn Forch茅, Kaveh Akbar, Juana Adcock and Sandeep Parmar.

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