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Language, Fashion and Textiles - Experiments in Living
With Linda Grant, Kassia St Clair, Amy Key, plus new drama from Lettie Precious.
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Crime
Ian McMillan and guests explore the challenge of crime writing.
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The Walk
Ian McMillan, Testament and Ira Lightman explore words and walking.
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T.S. Eliot Prize
Ian McMillan presents readings from poets shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize.
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Writing the Weather - Experiments in Living
Ian McMillan talks to Jenny Offill, Alice Oswald and Wayne Binitie about weather language.
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Optimism in Stories for Children - Experiments in Living
Ian McMillan with Frank Cottrell-Boyce, Gaia Vince, Smriti Halls and Kate Fox.
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Christmas Lights Verb - Experiments in Living
The Christmas Verb, with Floella Benjamin, John Cooper Clarke and Susie Dent.
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Brazil - Experiments in Living
Ian McMillan鈥檚 guests celebrate and explore the writers of Brazil.
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Margaret Atwood - Experiments in Living
Ian McMillan talks to Margaret Atwood about her writing process.
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Zero-Growth Writing - Experiments in Living
Zero-Growth with Yanis Varoufakis, Patrick McGuinness, Jade Cuttle and Seren Griffiths.
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Green Memoir - Experiments in Living
Ian McMillan and guests on 'green' memoir, our intimacy with landscape and its language.
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The Changing Language of Veganism: Experiments in Living
With Benjamin Zephaniah, Jonathan Safran Foer, Agustina Bazterrica and Rachael Allen
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Comedy writing in difficult times: Experiments in Living
Ian McMillan is joined by Ben Schott, Kate Fox, Grainne Maguire and Matt Winning
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The Poetry of Walls: Inside Out at the Southbank Centre
New poetry inspired by the limestone and concrete walls of London's Southbank Centre.
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Oil Stories - Experiments in Living
Ian McMillan and guests look at the way poets have written about oil and the oil industry.
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Claudia Rankine - Experiments in Living
Ian McMillan is joined by the American poet Claudia Rankine to explore her writing.
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Landscape & Language: Experiments in Living
Record at the Contains Strong Language Festival.
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Wordsworth: Experiments in Living at Contains Strong Language
The Verb comes from Grasmere to celebrate the 250th anniversary of Wordsworth's birth.
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Nature Poetry: Experiments in Living
With Simon Armitage, Moniza Alvi and Jade Cuttle
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Salman Rushdie
Ian McMillan talks to Salman Rushdie about his writing process and 'cancel culture'.
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Domestic Violence - in language, myths, and fairy stories
Ian McMillan and guests on the language and myths of domestic violence.
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The Ledbury Festival
With Carolyn Forch茅, Kaveh Akbar, Juana Adcock and Sandeep Parmar.
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Fatherhood, Dictionaries and Ghosts
With Joyce Carol Oates, Eley Williams, Yomi Sode and Lucy Burke.
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The Octopus Verb
With Peter Godfey Smith, Matthew Welton, Kate Fox, Catherine Ayres and Tania Hershman.
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Writers of the Caribbean diaspora
Roger Robinson, Malika Booker, Jacob Sam-La Rose and Ingrid Persaud.
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Language Lockdown
With Kate Clanchy, Rob Drummond and Julie Hesmondhalgh
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Woods, Weeds and Wildflowers: Nature Poetry
With Alice Oswald and Fiona Sampson
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Virtual Hay Festival
With Kapka Kassabova, James Shapiro and Inua Ellams
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Birdsong
With Sam Lee, Jen Hadfield and Richard Smyth.
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Carys Bray, Jacqueline Saphra, Jo Neary and Alissa Anne Jeun Yi
Ian McMillan and guests explore the world of language and literature
