The Essay Episodes Available now
The Blood—A Body of Essays: Series 3
Poet Kayo Chingoni chooses the blood, and reveals a tragic personal story of HIV AIDS.
The Eyes—A Body of Essays: Series 3
Poet Abi Curtis considers how our eyes both connect us to and alienate us from the world.
The Liver—A Body of Essays: Series 3
British Pakistani poet Imtiaz Dharker regards the liver as the true seat of our feelings.
Ted Hughes and Tenderness—Telegraph Wires - Five Views of Ted Hughes
Poet Simon Armitage talks about finding an unexpected in tenderness Ted Hughes's work.
Ted Hughes and the River of Time—Telegraph Wires - Five Views of Ted Hughes
Poet Zaffar Kunial explores Ted Hughes's personal obsession with dates and anniversaries.
Crows, Loss and a Violent Melancholia—Telegraph Wires - Five Views of Ted Hughes
Poet Karen McCarthy Woolf on finding solace in Hughes's work during a troubled childhood.
Ted Hughes v Philip Larkin—Telegraph Wires - Five Views of Ted Hughes
Sean O'Brien returns to his native Hull to consider the work of two very different poets.
Ted Hughes and Animal Encounters—Telegraph Wires - Five Views of Ted Hughes
Poet Helen Mort reads Hughes's poems about creatures in light of her own animal phobia.
100 Acre Wood—Forests
Brian Sibley guides Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough around the home of Winnie the Pooh.
The Jungle Book—Forests
Join Mowgli and Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough in the forest of Kipling's imagination
