The Verb Podcast
Radio 3's cabaret of the word, featuring the best poetry, new writing and performance
Episodes to download
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Writing Technology - Experiments in Living
Fri 30 Apr 2021
Isy Suttie and other writers on how technology shapes our time and thinking.
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Pausing and Punctuation - Experiments in Living
Fri 23 Apr 2021
Ian McMillan punctuates with Kei Miller, Angela Leighton, Eley Williams and Kate Fox.
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Determination in Writing - Experiments in Living
Fri 16 Apr 2021
Ian McMillan is joined by guests including Paula Byrne and Iona Lee.
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Planets - Experiments in Living
Fri 2 Apr 2021
Planets and poetry with Ian McMillan and guests including Bettany Hughes and JO Morgan.
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Spring Poetry: ambivalence and beauty
Fri 26 Mar 2021
Ian McMillan is joined by Paul Farley, Caleb Femi and Penelope Lively to celebrate spring.
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Writing at 91Èȱ¬ - Experiments in Living
Fri 19 Mar 2021
Ian McMillan on 'writing at home' with Maggie O'Farrell and Brian Bilston.
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The Great Gatsby
Fri 12 Mar 2021
Ian McMillan is joined by Sarah Churchwell, Inua Ellams, LJ Rich and Jonathan Bate.
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Gratitude - Experiments in Living
Fri 5 Mar 2021
Ian McMillan with Michael Symmons Roberts, Leafcutter John, Jack Bernhardt and Kate Fox.
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T.S. Eliot Prize
Fri 29 Jan 2021
Ian McMillan presents readings from poets shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize.
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Writing the Weather - Experiments in Living
Fri 22 Jan 2021
Ian McMillan talks to Jenny Offill, Alice Oswald and Wayne Binitie about weather language.
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Optimism in Stories for Children - Experiments in Living
Fri 8 Jan 2021
Ian McMillan with Frank Cottrell-Boyce, Gaia Vince, Smriti Halls and Kate Fox.
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Christmas Lights Verb - Experiments in Living
Fri 18 Dec 2020
The Christmas Verb, with Floella Benjamin, John Cooper Clarke and Susie Dent.
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Brazil - Experiments in Living
Fri 11 Dec 2020
Ian McMillan’s guests celebrate and explore the writers of Brazil.
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Margaret Atwood - Experiments in Living
Fri 4 Dec 2020
Ian McMillan talks to Margaret Atwood about her writing process.
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Zero-Growth Writing - Experiments in Living
Fri 27 Nov 2020
Zero-Growth with Yanis Varoufakis, Patrick McGuinness, Jade Cuttle and Seren Griffiths.
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Green Memoir - Experiments in Living
Fri 13 Nov 2020
Ian McMillan and guests on 'green' memoir, our intimacy with landscape and its language.
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The Changing Language of Veganism: Experiments in Living
Fri 6 Nov 2020
With Benjamin Zephaniah, Jonathan Safran Foer, Agustina Bazterrica and Rachael Allen
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Comedy writing in difficult times: Experiments in Living
Fri 30 Oct 2020
Ian McMillan is joined by Ben Schott, Kate Fox, Grainne Maguire and Matt Winning
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The Poetry of Walls: Inside Out at the Southbank Centre
Fri 23 Oct 2020
New poetry inspired by the limestone and concrete walls of London's Southbank Centre.
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Oil Stories - Experiments in Living
Fri 16 Oct 2020
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
Fri 9 Oct 2020
Ian McMillan is joined by the American poet Claudia Rankine to explore her writing.
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Landscape & Language: Experiments in Living
Fri 2 Oct 2020
Record at the Contains Strong Language Festival.
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Wordsworth: Experiments in Living at Contains Strong Language
Fri 25 Sep 2020
The Verb comes from Grasmere to celebrate the 250th anniversary of Wordsworth's birth.
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Nature Poetry: Experiments in Living
Fri 18 Sep 2020
With Simon Armitage, Moniza Alvi and Jade Cuttle
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Salman Rushdie
Fri 17 Jul 2020
Ian McMillan talks to Salman Rushdie about his writing process and 'cancel culture'.
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Domestic Violence - in language, myths, and fairy stories
Fri 10 Jul 2020
Ian McMillan and guests on the language and myths of domestic violence.
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The Ledbury Festival
Fri 3 Jul 2020
With Carolyn Forché, Kaveh Akbar, Juana Adcock and Sandeep Parmar.
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The Octopus Verb
Fri 19 Jun 2020
With Peter Godfey Smith, Matthew Welton, Kate Fox, Catherine Ayres and Tania Hershman.
91Èȱ¬ Arts
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The Dylan Thomas Collection
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