Programmes you may have missed: Rick Stein on Cornwall's Charles Causley
An episode of Rick Stein’s Cornwall recently repeated on BBC2 features the Cornish poet Charles Causley, who spent his life in the Cornish border town of Launceston. Stein talks to the Cornish writer Patrick Gale, who has written about Causley’s life, including his service with the Navy during the second world war.
After the war Causley returned to the cottage he shared with his mother, and bec...
16th March 2024
Poetry programmes you may have missed: The Poetry Detective; Michael Longley
The Poetry Detective broadcast on BBC Radio 4 is about “the poems we carry with us. The poems that speak to us so strongly that we return to them in times of confusion, fear, loneliness or joy. Some of us might choose to scribble a couple of lines on a Post It and stick it to the mirror. Some of us ...
18th February 2024
Poetry programmes you may have missed: Being Kae Tempest
In July 2020, the poet, rapper, playwright and recording artist Kae Tempest came out as non-binary, announcing that they would publish and perform under the name Kae. In this BBC Arena documentary Bei...
8th December 2023
