The Verb Presented by Ian McMillan

The Secret Lives of Women

What's stopping us telling the stories of women's inner lives, or listening to them, especially...

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The Intimacy of Names

Secret names, original names, nicknames, invented names for characters - this Verb explores the...

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The Radio Drama Verb

Ian McMillan celebrates 100 years of BBC Radio Drama with brand new commissions - from writers...

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Last Lines

Ian McMillan enjoys last lines in poetry, song, memoir, and novels - and his guests introduce him...

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Seductive Places

The Verb is lured this week into seductive places: poet Luke Wright presents a show full of...

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Writing Childhood

What do we remember about childhood? And how do we write about it, without feeling trapped in the...

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27/01/2023

Ian McMillan and his guests explore writing and cityscapes, asking how does architecture make us...

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The Verb TS Eliot Prize

On The Verb this week join Ian McMillan for a celebration of remarkable poets and poetry as he...

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The T S Eliot Prize

On The Verb this week join Ian McMillan for a celebration of remarkable poets and poetry as he...

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Breath

This week on the Verb we're taking in the air, and letting it out again as we explore how breath...

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The Verb with Hilary Mantel

This edition of The Verb is another chance to hear an extended interview with the prize winning...

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The Festive Verb

Join Ian McMillan for a festive recording of The Verb, in which we'll encounter a parade of...

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Ghost Writers

Ian McMillan explores the ghostly presences and phantoms of predecessors, literary or not, which...

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Poetry Book Club with Douglas Dunn

The Verb this week is another chance to hear Ian McMillan's interview with the great Scottish...

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First Drafts

This week we examine the sometimes painful process of drafting and redrafting. We're joined by...

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Playwrighting

On The Verb this week we're raising the curtain on playwriting. Ian McMillan is joined by four...

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BBC Centenary - Radio and Poetry

Celebrate 100 years of poetry on the BBC with Ian McMillan's cabaret of the word. The Verb...

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The Verb Narrators

How or what is the voice of the narrator, and what happens in a story when the narrator proves to...

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Verbatim Speech

This week The Verb is doing some straight talking and celebrating verbatim and everyday speech...

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Liberation Narratives

When we think of Liberation Narratives we perhaps most often mean slave or revolution narratives...

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