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Daljit Nagra selects two short programmes from the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½'s poetry archive. *And Daljit reads from his Poetry Extra Book of the Month: Transfigurations, Collected Poems by Jay Wright. More than half a century of the African American poet's work is published for the first time in the UK.

*John Arlott's Poetry Book – Shakespeare

The cricketing commentator turns to poetry as John Arlott talks about and reads from Shakespeare.

John Arlott was the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½'s radio cricketing commentator and successor to George Orwell as ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Literary Programmes Producer (1945-50).

First broadcast on the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ World Service in 1985.

*Terminates Here, 2/5 Memories

Lemn Sissay meets a man who spent 30 years working on the travelling post offices, on which the freezing conditions and the long hours were not as poetic as Auden suggests.

Producer – Philip Sellars

First broadcast on ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 in 2007.