The Verb

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Radio 3's cabaret of the word, featuring the best poetry, new writing and performance


Episode Date
The Final Verbdown
Mar 29, 2024
The Claustrophobic Verb
Mar 22, 2024
Zadie Smith
Mar 15, 2024
International Women's Day Verb
Mar 09, 2024
Words on Music
Mar 04, 2024
The Cute Verb
Feb 23, 2024
The World in Words
Feb 23, 2024
The Physical Verb
Feb 09, 2024
The Hip Hop Verb
Feb 06, 2024
Tessa Hadley
Jan 28, 2024
The TS Eliot Prize
Jan 19, 2024
Language
Jan 15, 2024
Last Lines
Jan 05, 2024
The Verb Christmas Special
Dec 22, 2023
Writing a Good Future
Dec 15, 2023
Joyce Carol Oates
Dec 01, 2023
Colm Tóibín
Nov 17, 2023
Shakespeare and the future
Nov 10, 2023
New International Poetry from the Contains Strong Language Festival 2023
Nov 03, 2023
20/10/2023
Oct 20, 2023
The Verb at Contains Strong Language Festival
Oct 06, 2023
Poetry from Contains Strong Language
Sep 29, 2023
Live from Contains Strong Language 2023
Sep 22, 2023
Irish Writing
Sep 15, 2023
The Verb at the Trades Club
Jul 14, 2023
Confidence: Masterclass
Jul 07, 2023
New Ways of Writing
Jun 30, 2023
Fathers and Time
Jun 23, 2023
The Verb at Hay Festival: How to write a Novel
Jun 16, 2023
The Verb at Hay Festival
Jun 09, 2023
Futures Verb
Jun 02, 2023
The Wicker Man Verb
May 26, 2023
Monsters and the Monstrous
May 19, 2023
12/05/2023
May 12, 2023
The Sound Design Verb
May 05, 2023
The Interview Verb
Apr 28, 2023
Funny Women
Apr 21, 2023
Wild Water
Apr 14, 2023
Something New
Apr 07, 2023
The Sounds between the Words
Mar 24, 2023
Spring Poetry: ambivalence and beauty
Mar 17, 2023
The Secret Lives of Women
Mar 10, 2023
The Intimacy of Names
Mar 03, 2023
The Radio Drama Verb
Feb 24, 2023
Seductive Places
Feb 10, 2023
Writing Childhood
Feb 03, 2023
The City Verb
Jan 27, 2023
The Verb TS Eliot Prize
Jan 23, 2023
Breath
Jan 13, 2023
The Verb with Hilary Mantel
Jan 06, 2023
The Festive Verb
Dec 16, 2022
Ghost Writers
Dec 09, 2022
Poetry Book Club with Douglas Dunn
Dec 02, 2022
First Drafts
Nov 25, 2022
Playwrighting
Nov 18, 2022
BBC Centenary - Radio and Poetry
Nov 11, 2022
The Verb Narrators
Nov 04, 2022
Verbatim Speech
Oct 28, 2022
Liberation Narratives
Oct 21, 2022
Benjamin Zephaniah
Oct 14, 2022
Harvest
Oct 07, 2022
40 years of Apples and Snakes
Sep 30, 2022
Birmingham Contains Strong Language
Sep 23, 2022
From Contains Strong Language
Sep 16, 2022
Games Day
Jul 15, 2022
Michael Longley
Jul 08, 2022
Old Age
Jul 01, 2022
Man Talk
Jun 24, 2022
Music and Words
Jun 17, 2022
The Verb at Hay
Jun 10, 2022
The Verb at Hay
Jun 03, 2022
The Queen's Library, Windsor Castle
May 27, 2022
Hidden
May 20, 2022
Books and Pens
May 13, 2022
Margaret Atwood - Experiments in Living
May 06, 2022
The Sea
Apr 29, 2022
Ancient and Modern
Apr 22, 2022
15/04/2022
Apr 15, 2022
The Twentieth Anniversary Verb
Apr 08, 2022
Taking Risks
Apr 01, 2022
After Dark Festival: The Chance to Change
Mar 25, 2022
Mothers and Daughters
Mar 11, 2022
Adversaries.
Mar 04, 2022
Extremes
Feb 25, 2022
Writing Travel
Feb 18, 2022
Couples
Feb 11, 2022
What Kind of Times Are These?
Jan 28, 2022
Once More from the Top
Jan 21, 2022
TS Eliot Prize Verb
Jan 14, 2022
Mermaids and Other Mysterious Sea Creatures
Jan 07, 2022
The Christmas Dinner Verb
Dec 17, 2021
The Space Verb
Dec 10, 2021
Repair
Dec 03, 2021
The Everyday Verb
Nov 26, 2021
The Pretentious Verb
Nov 19, 2021
Bernardine Evaristo
Nov 12, 2021
Electricity
Nov 05, 2021
Puddings
Oct 22, 2021
George Mackay Brown and Orkney
Oct 15, 2021
At Contains Strong Language
Oct 08, 2021
Green Places and Haunts - The Verb at Contains Strong Language
Oct 01, 2021
Live from Contains Strong Language
Sep 25, 2021
New Rules for Writing - Manifesto Launch
Sep 17, 2021
The Keepnet Verb - Experiments in Living
Jul 30, 2021
How to Write a Manifesto - Experiments in Living
Jul 23, 2021
The Politics Verb - Experiments in Living
Jun 25, 2021
Tree Thinking - Experiments in Living
Jun 11, 2021
Time Scales - Experiments in Living
Jun 04, 2021
The Hay Verb - Experiments in Living
May 28, 2021
Reverie - Experiments in Living
May 21, 2021
Family Time - Experiments in Living
May 14, 2021
Collaborations - Experiments in Living
May 07, 2021
Writing Technology - Experiments in Living
Apr 30, 2021
Pausing and Punctuation - Experiments in Living
Apr 23, 2021
Determination in Writing - Experiments in Living
Apr 16, 2021
Planets - Experiments in Living
Apr 02, 2021
Writing at Home - Experiments in Living
Mar 19, 2021
The Great Gatsby
Mar 12, 2021
Gratitude - Experiments in Living
Mar 05, 2021
Crime
Feb 19, 2021
The Walk
Feb 05, 2021
T.S. Eliot Prize
Jan 29, 2021
Writing the Weather - Experiments in Living
Jan 22, 2021
Optimism in Stories for Children - Experiments in Living
Jan 08, 2021
Christmas Lights Verb - Experiments in Living
Dec 18, 2020
Brazil - Experiments in Living
Dec 11, 2020
Zero-Growth Writing - Experiments in Living
Nov 27, 2020
Jan Morris
Nov 20, 2020
Green Memoir - Experiments in Living
Nov 13, 2020
The Changing Language of Veganism: Experiments in Living
Nov 06, 2020
Comedy writing in difficult times: Experiments in Living
Oct 30, 2020
The Poetry of Walls: Inside Out at the Southbank Centre
Oct 23, 2020
Oil Stories - Experiments in Living
Oct 16, 2020
Claudia Rankine - Experiments in Living
Oct 09, 2020
Landscape & Language: Experiments in Living
Oct 02, 2020
Wordsworth: Experiments in Living at Contains Strong Language
Sep 25, 2020
Nature Poetry: Experiments in Living
Sep 18, 2020
Salman Rushdie
Jul 17, 2020
Domestic Violence - in language, myths, and fairy stories
Jul 10, 2020
The Ledbury Festival
Jul 03, 2020
The Octopus Verb
Jun 19, 2020
Writers of the Caribbean diaspora
Jun 12, 2020
Language Lockdown
Jun 05, 2020
Woods, Weeds and Wildflowers: Nature Poetry
May 29, 2020
Virtual Hay Festival
May 22, 2020
Birdsong
May 15, 2020
Mirrors
Apr 24, 2020
17/04/2020
Apr 17, 2020
Social
Apr 10, 2020
African Writing
Apr 03, 2020
Uncertainty
Mar 28, 2020
Obsolete
Mar 21, 2020
Poetry and philosophy
Mar 06, 2020
The Language of Leaving
Feb 28, 2020
Hotel
Feb 21, 2020
Native American Writing
Feb 07, 2020
Goodness
Jan 31, 2020
Puns and Wordplay
Jan 24, 2020
The World of Poetry Publishing
Jan 10, 2020
Christmas Nonsense
Dec 20, 2019
Sports Writing
Dec 06, 2019
To the Circus
Nov 29, 2019
German poetry after the Berlin Wall
Nov 15, 2019
Novels that Shaped Our Language
Nov 08, 2019
Alone
Nov 01, 2019
The Verb
Oct 18, 2019
The Moon Verb
Jul 19, 2019
The Sound of Translation
Jul 12, 2019
The Common or Vulgar Verb
Jul 05, 2019
Aldeburgh
Jun 08, 2019
The Hay Festival
May 31, 2019
America
May 24, 2019
Along The River
May 17, 2019
Speaking of Violence
May 10, 2019
Insects and Language
May 03, 2019
Writing the Gap
Apr 26, 2019
Michael Ondaatje
Mar 22, 2019
Myths Re-imagined
Mar 15, 2019
How to write out sexism
Mar 08, 2019
Between Two Countries
Mar 01, 2019
Nightclubs
Feb 15, 2019
John Ruskin
Feb 08, 2019
The Subjunctive Verb
Feb 01, 2019
Don Paterson
Jan 25, 2019
W.S. Graham
Jan 18, 2019
TS Eliot Prize Readings
Jan 14, 2019
Synesthesia
Jan 11, 2019
The Christmas Verb
Dec 21, 2018
Sleepless Nights
Dec 14, 2018
07/12/2018
Dec 07, 2018
What's in a name?
Nov 30, 2018
Unwritten Poems - Verb Podcast Extra
Nov 09, 2018
Unwritten
Nov 09, 2018
Writing The Midlands
Nov 02, 2018
Instagram Poetry
Oct 26, 2018
Into The Forest
Oct 19, 2018
Failure for Writers
Oct 12, 2018
Young Poets
Oct 05, 2018
Contains Strong Language festival
Sep 29, 2018
Latitude Festival
Sep 21, 2018
The Verb at the Proms
Sep 14, 2018
The NHS at 70
Jul 06, 2018
Northern Rocks
Jun 29, 2018
The Verb at the Hay Festival.
Jun 01, 2018
The Festival Verb
May 25, 2018
Autism: poetry, language and writing
May 04, 2018
Night Meetings - Japan
Apr 27, 2018
Algorithms
Apr 20, 2018
Writing and Psychoanalysis
Mar 30, 2018
The Local Verb
Mar 02, 2018
Notes on The Verb
Feb 23, 2018
The Verb on Return
Feb 16, 2018
Fighting Talk
Feb 02, 2018
The Wellbeing Verb
Jan 26, 2018
Kerry Andrew, Danez Smith, Hollie McNish and Jenni Fagan
Jan 19, 2018
Lord Fox, David Crystal and Jenny Colgan
Jan 12, 2018
Chest of Drawers
Jan 05, 2018
The Verb's 'Out of this World' Christmas Special
Dec 29, 2017
The Scrolling Verb
Dec 08, 2017
How do you choose a mentor?
Dec 01, 2017
The Verb Celebrates 35 Years of Spoken Word
Nov 24, 2017
The Stoic Verb
Nov 10, 2017
The Tense Verb
Nov 03, 2017
Tim Minchin
Oct 27, 2017
The Society of the Spectacle
Oct 20, 2017
The Memory Verb
Oct 13, 2017
The Verb at the Contains Strong Language Festival of poetry and performance
Oct 06, 2017
The Verb Live from Contains Strong Language
Sep 29, 2017