New to 4 Extra. Poetry Extra, the series in which poet Daljit Nagra chooses highlights from 90 years of the BBC’s poetry archive. This week Daljit chooses a programme featuring dialects. Representing ...
A unique literary initiative aimed at preserving the traditional Mandayali dialect was observed with the launch of Laadi Ri Jhanang, a humorous poetry collection by local writer V ...
In spring 2015 I was in the market for a new literary research project when I heard a Radio 4 “In Our Time” broadcast about the Lancashire Cotton Famine of 1861-65. One of the panellists referred to ...
A video clip in which a little girl from Hong Kong fluently chanting ancient poems in local dialect on the streets of Xi’an city, in Northwest China’s Shaanxi Province, has gone viral online, with ...
The most famous poet in American history sold a million copies of his book, back in the days when a million was a lot. He had his own weekly radio show and even, for a while, his own television show.
The African-American writer Paul Laurence Dunbar was an enormously popular and respected poet in his day. He was born in Ohio in 1872, an era beginning to tune into diversity and gear up for modernism ...
Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's poetry archive and chooses Tongue and Talk - The Dialect Poets with Kirsty McKay on dialect poetry in Northumberland. Children's author Kirsty Mckay offers a ...
New To Radio 4 Extra. Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's poetry archive and chooses Tongue and Talk – The Dialect Poets with actor and writer Catherine Harvey in Lancashire. Actor and writer ...
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