The Verb Podcast
Ian McMillan hosts Radio 4's cabaret of the word, featuring the best poetry, new writing and performance.
Episodes to download
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Landscape & Language: Experiments in Living
Fri 2 Oct 2020
Record at the Contains Strong Language Festival.
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Wordsworth: Experiments in Living at Contains Strong Language
Fri 25 Sep 2020
The Verb comes from Grasmere to celebrate the 250th anniversary of Wordsworth's birth.
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Nature Poetry: Experiments in Living
Fri 18 Sep 2020
With Simon Armitage, Moniza Alvi and Jade Cuttle
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Salman Rushdie
Fri 17 Jul 2020
Ian McMillan talks to Salman Rushdie about his writing process and 'cancel culture'.
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Domestic Violence - in language, myths, and fairy stories
Fri 10 Jul 2020
Ian McMillan and guests on the language and myths of domestic violence.
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The Ledbury Festival
Fri 3 Jul 2020
With Carolyn Forché, Kaveh Akbar, Juana Adcock and Sandeep Parmar.
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The Octopus Verb
Fri 19 Jun 2020
With Peter Godfey Smith, Matthew Welton, Kate Fox, Catherine Ayres and Tania Hershman.
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Writers of the Caribbean diaspora
Fri 12 Jun 2020
Roger Robinson, Malika Booker, Jacob Sam-La Rose and Ingrid Persaud.
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17/04/2020
Fri 17 Apr 2020
Ian McMillan is joined by guests including Alan Titchmarsh and Patience Agbabi.
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African Writing
Fri 3 Apr 2020
With Maaza Mengiste, Ekow Eshun, Jennifer Makumbi and Ellah Wakatama.
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Native American Writing
Fri 7 Feb 2020
Acclaimed poet Layli Long Soldier joins Ian McMillan to explore her poetry.
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Puns and Wordplay
Fri 24 Jan 2020
Ian McMillan and his guests explore the power of puns and wordplay
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The World of Poetry Publishing
Fri 10 Jan 2020
With Michael Schmidt, Peter Sansom, Nell Nelson and Malachi McIntosh
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Christmas Nonsense
Fri 20 Dec 2019
Ian McMillan celebrates nonsense writing with Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler
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German poetry after the Berlin Wall
Fri 15 Nov 2019
Radio 3's weekly exploration of language and literature
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Novels that Shaped Our Language
Fri 8 Nov 2019
With Tim Minchin, Elif Shafak, Geoff Dyer and Kit de Waal
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The Verb: Something New – The Poems
New poems commissioned by The Verb for the BBC centenary.
35 Years of Spoken Word
A season of Poetry and Performance from Hull.
BBC Arts
Explore the BBC Arts website and discover the best of British art and culture.
The Dylan Thomas Collection
Listen to programmes, poetry readings and commentary from Radio 3's Dylan Thomas Day.
