Oil Stories - Experiments in Living
Ian McMillan and guests look at the way poets have written about oil and the oil industry.
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Oil Stories - Experiments in Living
Ian McMillan and guests look at the way poets have written about oil and the oil industry.
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Claudia Rankine - Experiments in Living
The Verb explores the art of conversation with Claudia Rankine, one of America's most innovative...
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Landscape & Language: Experiments in Living
This year the Contains Strong Language Festival of poetry and spoken word goes to Cumbria, as...
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Wordsworth: Experiments in Living at Contains Strong Language
The Verb celebrates 250 years since Wordsworth's birth. Ian McMillan is joined by poets Jacob...
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Nature Poetry: Experiments in Living
Do extraordinary times call for extraordinary kinds of writing and attention? Is it time to...
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Ian McMillan talks to Salman Rushdie about writing ‘cancel culture’ into his latest novel...
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Domestic Violence - in language, myths, and fairy stories
Ian McMillan is joined by former US Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner Natasha Trethewey,...
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This week we celebrate the spirit of the Ledbury Poetry Festival. With a distinctly international...
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Fatherhood, Dictionaries and Ghosts
Fathers, absences, and ghosts in the margins of dictionaries with Joyce Carol Oates, Eley...
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An eight-tentacled look at the world of the cephalopod, and the way these intelligent sea...
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Writers of the Caribbean diaspora
This week's Verb looks at writing from the Caribbean diaspora. The poet Roger Robinson won the...
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A few months ago, writing an email to a colleague that starts 'I hope you are safe in these...
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Woods, Weeds and Wildflowers: Nature Poetry
Since her first collection, The Thing in the Gap-Stone Stile, won the Forward Prize for Best...
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Our annual trip to the BBC Tent at the Hay Festival is one of the highlights of the Verb...
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How have humans interpreted and been inspired by birdsong? Ian is joined by musician and song...
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In this edition of The Verb Ian McMillan presents an extended interview with the novelist Hilary...
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Carys Bray, Jacqueline Saphra, Jo Neary and Alissa Anne Jeun Yi
This week on The Verb Ian McMillan is joined by Carys Bray, whose new novel examines the impact...
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This week The Verb is considering language, reflection and mirrors. There's a brand new...
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Ian McMillan is joined by guests Alan Titchmarsh and Patience Agbabi and there's the first in a...
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This week, Ian McMillan is joined from a distance by his guests, who are all in their own homes....
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Temores y zozobras (e1392).
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A Máquina do Tempo - H.G. Wells
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130 - Sally's Friend Tony
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