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The Verb Episodes

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    Obsolete

    With William Gibson, Don Paterson and K峄嵦乴谩 T煤b峄嵦�s煤n and Caro C

  2. Poetry and philosophy

    Ian McMillan's guests are Raymond Antrobus and Helen Mort.

  3. The Language of Leaving

    Ian McMillan explores the language of leaving.

  4. Hotel

    With Eimear McBride, Andy Miller and Roger Luckhurst

  5. Native American Writing

    Acclaimed poet Layli Long Soldier joins Ian McMillan to explore her poetry.

  6. Goodness

    With Kelcey Wilson-Lee, Will Harris, Kate Fox and Toby Litt.

  7. Puns and Wordplay

    Ian McMillan and his guests explore the power of puns and wordplay

  8. T. S. Eliot Prize

    Ian McMillan shares highlights of the T.S. Eliot Prize readings at the Royal Festival Hall

  9. The World of Poetry Publishing

    With Michael Schmidt, Peter Sansom, Nell Nelson and Malachi McIntosh

  10. Christmas Nonsense

    Ian McMillan celebrates nonsense writing with Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler

  11. Sports Writing

    With Frank Skinner, Zaffar Kunial, Rob Drummond and Joseph Bond.

  12. To the Circus

    The Verb goes to the circus.

  13. The Male Body

    Ian McMillan with David Baddiel, Joanna Bourke, Wayne Holloway Smith and Rob Drummond.

  14. German poetry after the Berlin Wall

    Radio 3's weekly exploration of language and literature

  15. Novels that Shaped Our Language

    With Tim Minchin, Elif Shafak, Geoff Dyer and Kit de Waal

  16. Alone

    The language and literature of loneliness with Kate Carr and DJ Taylor.

  17. The Verb on Deep Time

    Ian McMillan on the writing of deep time - with poets Kathleen Jamie and Denise Riley.

  18. Molluscs

    Ian McMillan and guests, including novelist Jill Dawson on molluscs, slime and writing.

  19. The Verb from the Contains Strong Language Festival

    Ian McMillan presents The Verb from Hull with Stuart Maconie and other guests.

  20. The Verb from the Contains Strong Language Festival

    Ian McMillan explores translating and argumentation with Clare Pollard and other guests.

  21. The Verb at Contains Strong Language

    Ian McMillan is joined by Simon Armitage and other poets live from Hull.

  22. The Verb at The Proms

    Recorded at the 2019 蜜芽传媒 Proms.

  23. The Moon Verb

    With Ocean Vuong, Kate Fox, Rob Drummond, Ira Lightman and Mary Jean Chan.

  24. The Sound of Translation

    With Rowan Williams, Adam Thirlwell and Adania Shibli.

  25. The Common or Vulgar Verb

    with Philip Gross, Jacqueline Saphra, Cathy Rentzenbrink and Heather Phillipson.

  26. Silences and Poetry

    Ian is joined by poets Ilya Kaminsky, Simon Armitage and Julia Copus.

  27. Nice

    With Tessa Hadley, Brian Bilston and Jesse Schwenk.

  28. Young Artists - The Verb Takes Five

    With Jardel Rodrigues, Yandass Ndlovu, Willow Mirza, Alice Gretton and Jack Bernhardt.

  29. Aldeburgh

    Live from The Aldeburgh Festival with Lavinia Greenlaw, Fiona Sampson and Mark Padmore.

  30. The Hay Festival

    Ian McMillan is joined by John Lanchester, Hannah Sullivan, Rachel Parris and Nina Stibbe

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