African Writing

With Maaza Mengiste, Ekow Eshun, Jennifer Makumbi and Ellah Wakatama.

• 50 mins

Social

Boo Hewerdine and Kate Fox on how friendships change in difficult times.

• 44 mins

17/04/2020

Ian McMillan is joined by guests including Alan Titchmarsh and Patience Agbabi.

• 44 mins

Mirrors

Looking into the mirror with Rebecca Solnit and Ira Lightman.

• 44 mins

Woods, Weeds and Wildflowers: Nature Poetry

With Alice Oswald and Fiona Sampson

• 44 mins

Birdsong

With Sam Lee, Jen Hadfield and Richard Smyth.

• 53 mins

Virtual Hay Festival

With Kapka Kassabova, James Shapiro and Inua Ellams

• 44 mins

Language Lockdown

With Kate Clanchy, Rob Drummond and Julie Hesmondhalgh

• 48 mins

Writers of the Caribbean diaspora

Roger Robinson, Malika Booker, Jacob Sam-La Rose and Ingrid Persaud.

• 46 mins

The Octopus Verb

With Peter Godfey Smith, Matthew Welton, Kate Fox, Catherine Ayres and Tania Hershman.

• 49 mins

The Ledbury Festival

With Carolyn Forché, Kaveh Akbar, Juana Adcock and Sandeep Parmar.

• 48 mins

Domestic Violence - in language, myths, and fairy stories

Ian McMillan and guests on the language and myths of domestic violence.

• 44 mins

Salman Rushdie

Ian McMillan talks to Salman Rushdie about his writing process and 'cancel culture'.

• 52 mins

Nature Poetry: Experiments in Living

With Simon Armitage, Moniza Alvi and Jade Cuttle

• 45 mins

Wordsworth: Experiments in Living at Contains Strong Language

The Verb comes from Grasmere to celebrate the 250th anniversary of Wordsworth's birth.

• 44 mins

Landscape & Language: Experiments in Living

Record at the Contains Strong Language Festival.

• 44 mins

Claudia Rankine - Experiments in Living

Ian McMillan is joined by the American poet Claudia Rankine to explore her writing.

• 44 mins

Oil Stories - Experiments in Living

Ian McMillan and guests look at the way poets have written about oil and the oil industry.

• 47 mins

The Poetry of Walls: Inside Out at the Southbank Centre

New poetry inspired by the limestone and concrete walls of London's Southbank Centre.

• 44 mins

Comedy writing in difficult times: Experiments in Living

Ian McMillan is joined by Ben Schott, Kate Fox, Grainne Maguire and Matt Winning

• 44 mins

The Changing Language of Veganism: Experiments in Living

With Benjamin Zephaniah, Jonathan Safran Foer, Agustina Bazterrica and Rachael Allen

• 44 mins

Green Memoir - Experiments in Living

Ian McMillan and guests on 'green' memoir, our intimacy with landscape and its language.

• 44 mins

Zero-Growth Writing - Experiments in Living

Zero-Growth with Yanis Varoufakis, Patrick McGuinness, Jade Cuttle and Seren Griffiths.

• 44 mins

Margaret Atwood - Experiments in Living

Ian McMillan talks to Margaret Atwood about her writing process.

• 44 mins

Brazil - Experiments in Living

Ian McMillan’s guests celebrate and explore the writers of Brazil.

• 44 mins

Christmas Lights Verb - Experiments in Living

The Christmas Verb, with Floella Benjamin, John Cooper Clarke and Susie Dent.

• 46 mins

Optimism in Stories for Children - Experiments in Living

Ian McMillan with Frank Cottrell-Boyce, Gaia Vince, Smriti Halls and Kate Fox.

• 44 mins

Writing the Weather - Experiments in Living

Ian McMillan talks to Jenny Offill, Alice Oswald and Wayne Binitie about weather language.

• 44 mins

T.S. Eliot Prize

Ian McMillan presents readings from poets shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize.

• 44 mins

The Walk

Ian McMillan, Testament and Ira Lightman explore words and walking.

• 44 mins