The Verb Presented by Ian McMillan

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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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Salman Rushdie

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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The Ledbury Festival

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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The Octopus Verb

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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Language Lockdown

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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Virtual Hay Festival

Our annual trip to the BBC Tent at the Hay Festival is one of the highlights of the Verb...

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Birdsong

How have humans interpreted and been inspired by birdsong? Ian is joined by musician and song...

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The Verb with Hilary Mantel

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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Mirrors

This week The Verb is considering language, reflection and mirrors. There's a brand new...

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17/04/2020

Ian McMillan is joined by guests Alan Titchmarsh and Patience Agbabi and there's the first in a...

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Social

This week, Ian McMillan is joined from a distance by his guests, who are all in their own homes....

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