The Verb Episodes Episode guide
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America
With Tracy K Smith, Terrance Hayes and Sarah Churchwell.
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Along The River
With Alan Hollinghurst, Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Jude Rogers and MacGillivray
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Speaking of Violence
With Mark Haddon, Kate Fox and Rachael Allen.
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Insects and Language
Ian McMillan and guests explore writing about insects.
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Writing the Gap
Radio 3's weekly exploration of language and literature
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Romantic Dialogue
With Kate Fox, Jenny Colgan, Matthew Ingram, Jarlath Killeen and Kiru Taye.
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Free Thinking - A Writer's Emotions
Writing emotions with Aidan Moffat, RM Hubbert, Raymond Antrobus, Tara Bergin, Denise Mina
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Free Thinking - Leonard Cohen
The emotional language of Leonard Cohen: loneliness, longing, desire and celebration.
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Myths Re-imagined
With Richard Scott, Fiona Benson, Jack Bernhardt and Jenny Lewis
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How to write out sexism
The Verb on sexism and language with Ann Oakley, Siri Hustvedt, Salena Godden, Ingrid Plum
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Between Two Countries
Ian McMillan spends time with Patrick McGuinness, Kate Fox, Basia Howard and Nick Makoha.
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Nightclubs
Dave Haslam, Geraldine Quigley, Rachael Young and Chris Green.
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John Ruskin
Ian McMillan and guests celebrate writer, artist and critic John Ruskin.
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The Subjunctive Verb
With Toby Litt, Holly Pester, Menna Elfyn and Rob Drummond.
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Don Paterson
An extended conversation with poet Don Paterson.
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TS Eliot Prize Readings
Ian McMillan comperes at the annual TS Eliot Prize readings at the Royal Festival Hall.
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Synesthesia
Hearing colours and tasting words with Hannah Silva, LJ Rich, Rob Drummond and Ruth Padel
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The Christmas Verb
Song and storytelling with Simon Armitage, Joanne Harris and Owen Roberts
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Sleepless Nights
With Al Kennedy, Amy Liptrot, Marina Benjamin and Bridget Minamore.
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07/12/2018
With Will Eaves, Ben Schott, Selina Nwulu and Jeremy Noel-Tod
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What's in a name?
With Iain Sinclair, Kate Fox, Sam Illingworth and Marilyn Hacker
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Uncertainty
Shaun Usher, Jo Neary and Jude Rogers are in the late-night language lock-in.
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Barbara Kingsolver
Ian McMillan is joined by novelist Barbara Kingsolver.
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Unwritten
The Verb presents 'Unwritten: Caribbean Poems After The First World War'
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Writing The Midlands
The Verb on The Midlands with Jonathan Coe, Liz Berry, Polar Bear
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Instagram Poetry
featuring Yrsa Daley-Ward
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Into The Forest
The Verb explores the forest as metaphor with Terry Deary and Pascale Petit
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Failure for Writers
The Verb on 'failure' with Kate Fox, Mohammed Hanif, Scanner and Bryony Kimmings
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Young Poets
The Verb at the 'Contains Strong Language' festival in Hull with the Foyle Young Poets
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Contains Strong Language festival
The Verb at Contains Strong Language with Jackie Kay, Gruff Rhys and Louise Wallwein
