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Seamus Heaney: A Life in Poetry (2010)

Subject

Literature

Audio recording of an interview with Seamus Heaney at the Royal Society of Literature in London on 22/2/2010. The event was held in collaboration with Poet in the City and recorded by the British Library...

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Book Club, The: All the Sonnets of Shakespeare (2020)

Series

Best of the Spectator

Podcast. Sam Leith talks to Paul Edmondson and Stanley Wells about their new book, All The Sonnets of Shakespeare, which brings together in chronlogical order the sonnets that appear in the plays together...

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British armed forces praised after Gulf victory (1991)

Genre

Speech

Part of speech (by Prince Charles, Prince of Wales?) at the Guildhall, London to Prime Minister John major, Lord Mayor and other guests, commending the actions of the British armed forces and their families...

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Bernard Cribbins and The Railway Children (1988)

Genre

Interview

Henry Kelly interviews actor and author Bernard Cribbins about his new book, Along the Lines with Bernard Cribbins - a collection of poems about steam engines and transport. He speaks of his childhood and...

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Prince Charles remembers the sacrifice of British forces (1991)

Genre

Speech

Speech (by Prince Charles, Prince of Wales?) in which he addresses the Lord Mayor of London, Prime Minister John Major and others at the Guildhall in London. On the end of the Gulf war and pays tribute to...

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The best of First Edition (1994)

Genre

Discussion; Interview

Tricia Ingrams presents the pick of her week’s First Edition programme , on London Newstalk between 7pm and 10pm each weekday evening. Guests are: Rebecca Stephens, first British woman to climb Everest,...

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Stevie Smith - BBC Radio Interviews (2003)

Subject

English language and literature

Extracts from a radio interview with the British poet and novelist Stevie Smith. Described as one of the most original poetic voices to emerge from the thirties, Stevie Smith’s eccentric, mischievous,...

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Contemporary Literature on Tape: Grace Nicols and Samuel Selvon (1995)

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, Audio (Cassette), £5.99

A National Sound Archive recording of two Afro-Caribbean writers, Grace Nichols and Samuel Selvon. Both writers explore different aspects of Black experience through a wide range of language-forms, including...

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Great Lives [30/08/2011] (2011 Radio)

aka: William Shakespeare

Series

Great Lives

Producer

Mark Smalley

Biographical radio series presented by Matthew Parris in which his guest chooses someone who has inspired their lives. In this episode William Shakespeare is nominated for great life status by poetry curator...

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