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Poet Daljit Nagra selects two short programmes from the 91¸£ÀûÉç's poetry archive

*** John Arlott's Poetry Book – Shakespeare

The cricketing commentator turns to poetry as John talks about and reads from Shakespeare.

John Arlott was the 91¸£ÀûÉç's radio cricketing commentator and successor to George Orwell as the 91¸£ÀûÉç's Literary Programmes Producer (1945-50).

First broadcast on the 91¸£ÀûÉç World Service in 1985.

*** Terminates Here, 2/5 Memories

Lemn Sissay meets a man who spent 30 years working on the travelling post offices, on which the freezing conditions and the long hours were not as poetic as Auden suggests.

Producer: Philip Sellars

First broadcast on 91¸£ÀûÉç Radio 4 in 2007.

*** And Daljit reads from his Poetry Extra Book of the Month:

Transfigurations, Collected Poems by Jay Wright. More than half a century of the African American poet's work is published for the first time in the UK.

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