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Poetry Extra Episodes

  1. Adventures in Poetry - The Listeners

    Daljit Nagra introduces the classic poem The Listeners by Walter de la Mare.

  2. Adventures in Poetry - Not Waving but Drowning

    Daljit Nagra introduces Adventures in Poetry featuring Stevie Smith and her powerful poem.

  3. Contemporary American Poets - Charles Simic and Louise Gluck

    Daljit Nagra introduces Postscript: Contemporary American Poets featuring Gluck and Simic.

  4. Tales from Ovid - Arethusa; Salamacis and Hermaphroditus; Actaeon;Tiresias

    Daljit Nagra introduces stories including Tiresias retold from Ovid's Metamorphoses.

  5. Tales from Ovid: Pyramus and Thisbe; Erysichthon

    Daljit Nagra introduces tales from Ovid's Metamorphoses, including' Pyramus and Thisbe'.

  6. Tales from Ovid: Semele; Peleus and Thetis; Pygmalion; The Birth of Hercules

    Daljit Nagra introduces stories retold from Ovid's Metamorphoses including Pygmalion.

  7. Tales from Ovid: Arachne; Midas

    Daljit Nagra introduces Arachne and Midas, stories retold from Ovid's Metamorphoses.

  8. Tales from Ovid: Echo and Narcissus & Callisto and Arcas

    Daljit Nagra introduces a prize-winning retelling of tales from Ovid's Metamorphoses.

  9. Poetry Idol

    Daljit Nagra introduces Poetry Idol - a contest to find the best poet in the Middle East.

  10. Beacons and Blue Remembered Hills

    Daljit Nagra introduces Beacons and Blue Remembered Hills - the poetry of AE Housman.

  11. Tagore at 150

    Daljit Nagra on an event marking the anniversary of the poet's birth at Dartington Hall.

  12. David Walliams on Philip Larkin

    Daljit Nagra introduces David Walliams on Philip Larkin.

  13. Paul Celan in Mapesbury Road

    Daljit Nagra introduces Paul Celan in Mapesbury Road - Europe's master elegist.

  14. Crazy For Love - Layla and the Mad Poet

    Daljit Nagra introduces Crazy for Love, one of the greatest Middle East love stories.

  15. Cold War Poet

    Daljit Nagra on how Dylan Thomas' poetry sustained a generation of East Germans.

  16. We Real Cool - The Poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks

    The poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks with the voices of her friends and family.

  17. Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus - Dancing the Orange

    Daljit Nagra introduces the story of a great modern masterpiece.

  18. A Notebook on Aim茅 C茅saire

    Daljit Nagra introduces A Notebook on Aim茅 C茅saire, a portrait of Martinique's famous son.

  19. Radio Heaney

    Daljit Nagra introduces the County Derry poet Seamus Heaney and his love for the wireless.

  20. Ko Un - The People's Poet of Korea

    Daljit Nagra looks abroad for inspiration and introduces Ko Un - People's Poet of Korea.

  21. Walking With Whitman

    Daljit Nagra introduces the father of American Literature, Walt Whitman.

  22. Consorting with Angels

    Daljit Nagra introduces Consorting with Angels, featuring model and poet, Anne Sexton.

  23. Lost Voices - Rosemary Tonks

    Daljit Nagra introduces Lost Voices featuring Rosemary Tonks.

  24. Lost Voices - Dom Moraes

    Daljit Nagra introduces Lost Voices featuring Indian poet Dom Moraes.

  25. Lost Voices - WH Davies

    Daljit Nagra introduces Lost Voices featuring the travelling, nature-loving poet WH Davies

  26. With Great Pleasure - Les Murray

    Les Murray's pick of prose and poetry read by Sean Barrett and Sally Cookson.

  27. With Great Pleasure - Sean O'Brien

    Sean O'Brien's pick of prose and poetry read by Julia Watson and Deka Walmsley.

  28. With Great Pleasure - Jo Shapcott

    Poet Jo Shapcott's favourite literature read by Christian Rodska and Mark Meadows.

  29. With Great Pleasure - Don Paterson

    Daljit Nagra introduces 'With Great Pleasure' from the Summer 2006 Ledbury Poetry Festival

  30. The Echo Chamber - Solsticial

    Daljit Nagra introduces The Echo Chamber with Alice Oswald's poem 'Tithonus'.

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