The Verb Episodes Episode guide
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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
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Latitude Festival
Join Ian and guests at the Latitude Festival's Speakeasy stage
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The Verb at the Proms
Ian McMillan is joined by Michael Palin, Anne Dudley, Jason Singh and Mojdeh Stoakley.
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The NHS at 70
The Verb celebrates the NHS at 70.
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Northern Rocks
The language and literature of northern rocks and climbing.
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Into the Forest
A literary walk through a world forest, with new work from international writers.
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Michael Ondaatje
Ian McMillan is joined by Michael Ondaatje for a special edition of The Verb.
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Kirsty Gunn, Ga毛l Faye, Tishani Doshi, Emma Jowett
Ian McMillan is joined by Kirsty Gunn, Gael Faye, Tishani Doshi and Emma Jowett.
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The Verb at the Hay Festival.
Ian McMillan talks resilience with The Last Poets, Michael Morpurgo and Helen Mort.
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The Festival Verb
Ian McMillan's guests include Murray Lachlan Young, Louise Welsh, and William Letford.
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Jan Morris
A special extended interview with travel writer Jan Morris.
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Pam Ayres, Robin Ince and Lou Conran
Ian McMillan's Late Night Language Lock-in.
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Autism: poetry, language and writing
With Henry Normal, Kate Fox, James McGrath and Alicia Kopf.
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Night Meetings - Japan
The Verb meets the language of night-time Japan - in comedy, poetry and 'the blues'.
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Algorithms
Getting creative with code with Eugenia Cheng and Helen Arney.
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Pitching Your Work
Writer and actor Ruth Jones and poet Raymond Antrobus.
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W.S. Graham
The Verb visits Cornwall to celebrate the centenary of the poet W.S. Graham.
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The Verb at Free Thinking: 2/2 'The One'
Kathryn Williams, Sinead Morrisey, Tom Jackson, Rowan McCabe and Sarah Sayeed.
