For me, listening to a poem on the radio combines the best of these two worlds: there’s the intimacy of the lines flying through the air to land on the ear and there’s the sense that ...

Barnaby Martin of Listening In looks at the origin of the incredibly poignant scene from Four Weddings and a Funeral in which a young John Hanna recites the heartbreaking W.H. Auden poem “Stop ...

These poems are read by the actors Maxine Peake and Julian Rhind-Tutt. The programmes can be used in a variety of ways. You can listen to them in their entirety or listen to and focus on one poem ...