The Verb
By BBC Radio 4
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Ian McMillan hosts Radio 4's cabaret of the word, featuring the best poetry, new writing and performance.
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Myths to nourish your life: poetry with Ian McMillan and Angie Hobbs, Rishi Dastidar, Bradley Taylor, Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch
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Jun 14, 2026 |
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Poetry - a bullet-proof vest for the soul
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Jun 07, 2026 |
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The Verb at the Hay Festival
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May 31, 2026 |
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Dark nights of the Soul, Brian Bilston, JH Prynne, Daljit Nagra, William Blake and Martha Sprackland
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May 24, 2026 |
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Michael Laskey, Michael Schmidt, Michelle Penn, Rachel Douglas-Jones
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Mar 08, 2026 |
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Sibling relationships with Blake Morrison, Natalie Shapero, Tara Bergin, and the word 'literally'
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Mar 01, 2026 |
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George Szirtes, Iryna Starovoyt, Zain Rishi, Katie Clarke
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Feb 22, 2026 |
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Richard Dawson, Jacob Polley, Sarah Howe, Frank Cottrell Boyce on John Carey
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Feb 15, 2026 |
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The Love Verb
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Feb 08, 2026 |
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Rilke's life-changing poems and Paul Farley, Kate Fox, Griot Gabriel
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Feb 01, 2026 |
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T.S. Eliot Prize Poets
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Jan 25, 2026 |
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The Christmas Adverb
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Dec 19, 2025 |
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Simon Armitage, Alistair McGowan, Joelle Taylor
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Nov 16, 2025 |
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Train Poetry with Don Paterson, Bella Hardy, Carmen Marcus, Patrick McGuinness
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Nov 09, 2025 |
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Shaun Usher, Katrina Naomi, Amani Saeed, Fran Edwards and Jennifer Jones
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Oct 26, 2025 |
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Poetry by Tony Harrison, US Poet Laureate Arthur Sze, Sinéad Morrissey, David Morley, and Daniel Sluman
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Oct 19, 2025 |
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Maria Popova, Aditya Narayan, Kimberly Campanello, DM Black
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Oct 12, 2025 |
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The Verb from Contains Strong Language in Bradford
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Oct 05, 2025 |
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The Adverb
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Sep 19, 2025 |
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The Adverb from the Ledbury Poetry Festival
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Sep 12, 2025 |
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Forrest Gander, Laurie Bolger, SJ Fowler, Rachel Segal Hamilton
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Jun 29, 2025 |
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Harriet Walter, Jason Singh, Gillian Allnutt, Glacier Poetry
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Jun 22, 2025 |
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Boo Hewerdine, Fiona Benson, Alison Binney, Yvonne Lyon, Eartoon
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Jun 15, 2025 |
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Poetry and performance with Ian McMillan
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Jun 08, 2025 |
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Hedges and poetry
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Jun 01, 2025 |
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Peter Mackay, Tishani Doshi, Scanner, Lorna Goodison
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May 25, 2025 |
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Rebecca Watts, Brian Bilston, Cristina Rivera Garza, Deryn Rees-Jones
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Feb 23, 2025 |
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Reeta Chakrabarti, Fred D'Aguiar, Ella Frears, Edward Wilson-Lee
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Feb 02, 2025 |
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Joelle Taylor, Anthony Joseph, Luke Wright, Accents
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Jan 26, 2025 |
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TS Eliot Prize Readings - highlights of a year in poetry
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Jan 19, 2025 |
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Richard Dawkins, Gwyneth Lewis, Kate Fox, Eartoon
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Jan 12, 2025 |
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The Morecambe Poetry Festival
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Jan 03, 2025 |
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A special recording of The AdVerb at The Hackney Empire
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Dec 27, 2024 |
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Isy Suttie, Pascale Petit, Deryn Rees Jones, Alan Connor
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Nov 03, 2024 |
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Wendy Cope, Theresa Lola , Susie Dent, Ira Lightman
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Oct 27, 2024 |
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Paul Farley, Malika Booker, Rob Drummond, Kate Fox
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Oct 20, 2024 |
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Margaret Atwood and Alice Oswald
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Oct 13, 2024 |
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The Verb in Australia
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Oct 06, 2024 |
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29/09/2024
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Sep 29, 2024 |
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22/09/2024
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Sep 22, 2024 |
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The Adverb in Australia
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Sep 06, 2024 |
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The Adverb at Outspoken
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Aug 30, 2024 |
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The Adverb at Hay
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Aug 23, 2024 |
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The Adverb at Latitude
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Aug 16, 2024 |
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28/07/2024
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Jul 28, 2024 |
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21/07/2024
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Jul 21, 2024 |
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14/07/2024
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Jul 14, 2024 |
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07/07/2024
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Jul 07, 2024 |
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30/06/2024
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Jun 30, 2024 |
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23/06/2024
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Jun 23, 2024 |
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The Final Verbdown
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Mar 29, 2024 |
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The Claustrophobic Verb
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Mar 22, 2024 |
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Zadie Smith
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Mar 15, 2024 |
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International Women's Day Verb
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Mar 09, 2024 |
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Words on Music
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Mar 04, 2024 |
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The Cute Verb
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Feb 23, 2024 |
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The World in Words
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Feb 23, 2024 |
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The Physical Verb
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Feb 09, 2024 |
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The Hip Hop Verb
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Feb 06, 2024 |
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Tessa Hadley
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Jan 28, 2024 |
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The TS Eliot Prize
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Jan 19, 2024 |
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Language
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Jan 15, 2024 |
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Last Lines
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Jan 05, 2024 |
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The Verb Christmas Special
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Dec 22, 2023 |
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Writing a Good Future
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Dec 15, 2023 |
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Joyce Carol Oates
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Dec 01, 2023 |
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Colm Tóibín
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Nov 17, 2023 |
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Shakespeare and the future
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Nov 10, 2023 |
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New International Poetry from the Contains Strong Language Festival 2023
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Nov 03, 2023 |
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20/10/2023
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Oct 20, 2023 |
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The Verb at Contains Strong Language Festival
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Oct 06, 2023 |
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Poetry from Contains Strong Language
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Sep 29, 2023 |
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Live from Contains Strong Language 2023
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Sep 22, 2023 |
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Irish Writing
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Sep 15, 2023 |
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The Verb at the Trades Club
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Jul 14, 2023 |
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Confidence: Masterclass
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Jul 07, 2023 |
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New Ways of Writing
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Jun 30, 2023 |
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Fathers and Time
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Jun 23, 2023 |
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The Verb at Hay Festival: How to write a Novel
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Jun 16, 2023 |
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The Verb at Hay Festival
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Jun 09, 2023 |
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Futures Verb
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Jun 02, 2023 |
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The Wicker Man Verb
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May 26, 2023 |
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Monsters and the Monstrous
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May 19, 2023 |
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12/05/2023
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May 12, 2023 |
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The Sound Design Verb
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May 05, 2023 |
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The Interview Verb
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Apr 28, 2023 |
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Funny Women
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Apr 21, 2023 |
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Wild Water
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Apr 14, 2023 |
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Something New
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Apr 07, 2023 |
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The Sounds between the Words
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Mar 24, 2023 |
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Spring Poetry: ambivalence and beauty
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Mar 17, 2023 |
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The Secret Lives of Women
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Mar 10, 2023 |
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The Intimacy of Names
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Mar 03, 2023 |
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The Radio Drama Verb
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Feb 24, 2023 |
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Seductive Places
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Feb 10, 2023 |
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Writing Childhood
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Feb 03, 2023 |
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The City Verb
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Jan 27, 2023 |
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The Verb TS Eliot Prize
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Jan 23, 2023 |
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Breath
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Jan 13, 2023 |
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The Verb with Hilary Mantel
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Jan 06, 2023 |
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The Festive Verb
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Dec 16, 2022 |
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Ghost Writers
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Dec 09, 2022 |
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Poetry Book Club with Douglas Dunn
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Dec 02, 2022 |
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First Drafts
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Nov 25, 2022 |
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Playwrighting
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Nov 18, 2022 |
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BBC Centenary - Radio and Poetry
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Nov 11, 2022 |
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The Verb Narrators
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Nov 04, 2022 |
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Verbatim Speech
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Oct 28, 2022 |
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Liberation Narratives
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Oct 21, 2022 |
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Benjamin Zephaniah
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Oct 14, 2022 |
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Harvest
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Oct 07, 2022 |
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40 years of Apples and Snakes
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Sep 30, 2022 |
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Birmingham Contains Strong Language
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Sep 23, 2022 |
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From Contains Strong Language
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Sep 16, 2022 |
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Games Day
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Jul 15, 2022 |
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Michael Longley
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Jul 08, 2022 |
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Old Age
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Jul 01, 2022 |
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Man Talk
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Jun 24, 2022 |
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Music and Words
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Jun 17, 2022 |
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The Verb at Hay
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Jun 10, 2022 |
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The Verb at Hay
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Jun 03, 2022 |
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The Queen's Library, Windsor Castle
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May 27, 2022 |
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Hidden
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May 20, 2022 |
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Books and Pens
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May 13, 2022 |
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Margaret Atwood - Experiments in Living
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May 06, 2022 |
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The Sea
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Apr 29, 2022 |
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Ancient and Modern
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Apr 22, 2022 |
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15/04/2022
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Apr 15, 2022 |
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The Twentieth Anniversary Verb
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Apr 08, 2022 |
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Taking Risks
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Apr 01, 2022 |
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After Dark Festival: The Chance to Change
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Mar 25, 2022 |
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Mothers and Daughters
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Mar 11, 2022 |
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Adversaries.
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Mar 04, 2022 |
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Extremes
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Feb 25, 2022 |
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Writing Travel
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Feb 18, 2022 |
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Couples
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Feb 11, 2022 |
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What Kind of Times Are These?
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Jan 28, 2022 |
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Once More from the Top
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Jan 21, 2022 |
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TS Eliot Prize Verb
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Jan 14, 2022 |
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Mermaids and Other Mysterious Sea Creatures
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Jan 07, 2022 |
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The Christmas Dinner Verb
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Dec 17, 2021 |
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The Space Verb
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Dec 10, 2021 |
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Repair
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Dec 03, 2021 |
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The Everyday Verb
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Nov 26, 2021 |
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The Pretentious Verb
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Nov 19, 2021 |
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Bernardine Evaristo
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Nov 12, 2021 |
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Electricity
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Nov 05, 2021 |
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Puddings
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Oct 22, 2021 |
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George Mackay Brown and Orkney
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Oct 15, 2021 |
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At Contains Strong Language
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Oct 08, 2021 |
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Green Places and Haunts - The Verb at Contains Strong Language
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Oct 01, 2021 |
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Live from Contains Strong Language
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Sep 25, 2021 |
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New Rules for Writing - Manifesto Launch
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Sep 17, 2021 |
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The Keepnet Verb - Experiments in Living
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Jul 30, 2021 |
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How to Write a Manifesto - Experiments in Living
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Jul 23, 2021 |
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The Politics Verb - Experiments in Living
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Jun 25, 2021 |
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Tree Thinking - Experiments in Living
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Jun 11, 2021 |
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Time Scales - Experiments in Living
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Jun 04, 2021 |
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The Hay Verb - Experiments in Living
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May 28, 2021 |
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Reverie - Experiments in Living
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May 21, 2021 |
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Family Time - Experiments in Living
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May 14, 2021 |
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Collaborations - Experiments in Living
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May 07, 2021 |
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Writing Technology - Experiments in Living
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Apr 30, 2021 |
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Pausing and Punctuation - Experiments in Living
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Apr 23, 2021 |
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Determination in Writing - Experiments in Living
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Apr 16, 2021 |
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Planets - Experiments in Living
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Apr 02, 2021 |
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Writing at Home - Experiments in Living
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Mar 19, 2021 |
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The Great Gatsby
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Mar 12, 2021 |
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Gratitude - Experiments in Living
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Mar 05, 2021 |
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Crime
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Feb 19, 2021 |
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The Walk
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Feb 05, 2021 |
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T.S. Eliot Prize
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Jan 29, 2021 |
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Writing the Weather - Experiments in Living
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Jan 22, 2021 |
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Optimism in Stories for Children - Experiments in Living
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Jan 08, 2021 |
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Christmas Lights Verb - Experiments in Living
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Dec 18, 2020 |
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Brazil - Experiments in Living
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Dec 11, 2020 |
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Zero-Growth Writing - Experiments in Living
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Nov 27, 2020 |
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Jan Morris
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Nov 20, 2020 |
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Green Memoir - Experiments in Living
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Nov 13, 2020 |
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The Changing Language of Veganism: Experiments in Living
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Nov 06, 2020 |
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Comedy writing in difficult times: Experiments in Living
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Oct 30, 2020 |
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The Poetry of Walls: Inside Out at the Southbank Centre
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Oct 23, 2020 |
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Oil Stories - Experiments in Living
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Oct 16, 2020 |
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Claudia Rankine - Experiments in Living
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Oct 09, 2020 |
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Landscape & Language: Experiments in Living
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Oct 02, 2020 |
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Wordsworth: Experiments in Living at Contains Strong Language
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Sep 25, 2020 |
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Nature Poetry: Experiments in Living
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Sep 18, 2020 |
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Salman Rushdie
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Jul 17, 2020 |
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Domestic Violence - in language, myths, and fairy stories
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Jul 10, 2020 |
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The Ledbury Festival
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Jul 03, 2020 |
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The Octopus Verb
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Jun 19, 2020 |
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Writers of the Caribbean diaspora
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Jun 12, 2020 |
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Language Lockdown
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Jun 05, 2020 |
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Woods, Weeds and Wildflowers: Nature Poetry
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May 29, 2020 |
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Virtual Hay Festival
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May 22, 2020 |
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Birdsong
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May 15, 2020 |
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Mirrors
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Apr 24, 2020 |
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17/04/2020
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Apr 17, 2020 |
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Social
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Apr 10, 2020 |
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African Writing
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Apr 03, 2020 |
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Uncertainty
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Mar 28, 2020 |
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Obsolete
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Mar 21, 2020 |
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Poetry and philosophy
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Mar 06, 2020 |
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The Language of Leaving
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Feb 28, 2020 |
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Hotel
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Feb 21, 2020 |
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Native American Writing
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Feb 07, 2020 |
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Goodness
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Jan 31, 2020 |
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Puns and Wordplay
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Jan 24, 2020 |
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The World of Poetry Publishing
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Jan 10, 2020 |
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Christmas Nonsense
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Dec 20, 2019 |
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Sports Writing
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Dec 06, 2019 |
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To the Circus
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Nov 29, 2019 |
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German poetry after the Berlin Wall
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Nov 15, 2019 |
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Novels that Shaped Our Language
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Nov 08, 2019 |
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Alone
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Nov 01, 2019 |
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Molluscs
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Oct 18, 2019 |
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The Moon Verb
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Jul 19, 2019 |
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The Sound of Translation
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Jul 12, 2019 |
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The Common or Vulgar Verb
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Jul 05, 2019 |
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Aldeburgh
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Jun 08, 2019 |
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The Hay Festival
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May 31, 2019 |
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America
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May 24, 2019 |
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Along The River
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May 17, 2019 |
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Speaking of Violence
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May 10, 2019 |
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Insects and Language
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May 03, 2019 |
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Writing the Gap
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Apr 26, 2019 |
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Michael Ondaatje
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Mar 22, 2019 |
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Myths Re-imagined
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Mar 15, 2019 |
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How to write out sexism
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Mar 08, 2019 |
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Between Two Countries
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Mar 01, 2019 |
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Nightclubs
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Feb 15, 2019 |
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John Ruskin
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Feb 08, 2019 |
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The Subjunctive Verb
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Feb 01, 2019 |
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Don Paterson
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Jan 25, 2019 |
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W.S. Graham
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Jan 18, 2019 |
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TS Eliot Prize Readings
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Jan 14, 2019 |
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Synesthesia
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Jan 11, 2019 |
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The Christmas Verb
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Dec 21, 2018 |
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Sleepless Nights
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Dec 14, 2018 |
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07/12/2018
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Dec 07, 2018 |
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What's in a name?
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Nov 30, 2018 |
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Unwritten Poems - Verb Podcast Extra
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Nov 09, 2018 |
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Unwritten
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Nov 09, 2018 |
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Writing The Midlands
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Nov 02, 2018 |
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Instagram Poetry
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Oct 26, 2018 |
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Into The Forest
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Oct 19, 2018 |
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Failure for Writers
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Oct 12, 2018 |
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Young Poets
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Oct 05, 2018 |
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Contains Strong Language festival
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Sep 29, 2018 |
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Latitude Festival
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Sep 21, 2018 |
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The Verb at the Proms
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Sep 14, 2018 |
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The NHS at 70
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Jul 06, 2018 |
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Northern Rocks
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Jun 29, 2018 |
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The Verb at the Hay Festival.
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Jun 01, 2018 |
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The Festival Verb
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May 25, 2018 |
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Autism: poetry, language and writing
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May 04, 2018 |
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Night Meetings - Japan
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Apr 27, 2018 |
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Algorithms
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Apr 20, 2018 |
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Writing and Psychoanalysis
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Mar 30, 2018 |
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The Local Verb
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Mar 02, 2018 |
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Notes on The Verb
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Feb 23, 2018 |
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The Verb on Return
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Feb 16, 2018 |
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Fighting Talk
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Feb 02, 2018 |
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The Wellbeing Verb
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Jan 26, 2018 |
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Kerry Andrew, Danez Smith, Hollie McNish and Jenni Fagan
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Jan 19, 2018 |
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Lord Fox, David Crystal and Jenny Colgan
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Jan 12, 2018 |
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Chest of Drawers
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Jan 05, 2018 |
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The Verb's 'Out of this World' Christmas Special
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Dec 29, 2017 |
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The Scrolling Verb
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Dec 08, 2017 |
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How do you choose a mentor?
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Dec 01, 2017 |
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The Verb Celebrates 35 Years of Spoken Word
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Nov 24, 2017 |
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The Stoic Verb
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Nov 10, 2017 |
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The Tense Verb
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Nov 03, 2017 |
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Tim Minchin
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Oct 27, 2017 |
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The Society of the Spectacle
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Oct 20, 2017 |
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The Memory Verb
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Oct 13, 2017 |
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The Verb at the Contains Strong Language Festival of poetry and performance
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Oct 06, 2017 |
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The Verb Live from Contains Strong Language
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Sep 29, 2017 |