In a series of The Essay on BBC Radio 3, Northern Ireland’s most eminent contemporary poet, Michael Longley, talks to […]

FIRST BROADCAST: 17th March 2024, BBC Radio 4 Link to programme webpage. Available to listen back March/April 2024. In 1941, […]

Bairbre O’Hogan tells the story of the life and writing of Winifred Letts, poet, playwright and novelist, in ‘These Things […]

Ten people each choose a favourite poem by Seamus Heaney. First broadcast daily in September 2023 on Niall Carroll’s Classical […]

A five-part series of The Essay for BBC Radio 3. Broadcast over five nights from 2nd to 6th January 2023. […]

The story of the visit to Ireland of Sylvia Plath in September 1962 and her admiration of her literary hero, […]

Chandrika Narayanan-Mohan presents a programme featuring six poets from four continents who are making their mark on the world of […]

Vona Groarke meets fellow poets John McAuliffe, Martina Evans, Sinéad Morrissey and Conor O’Callaghan, who all share her experience of […]

Jessica Traynor writes a history in poetry of the town of Banagher in County Offaly. First broadcast: Sunday 15th October […]

Olivia O’Leary and poet Paddy Bushe follow the route of a long-forgotten walk in Kerry, as described in her poem […]