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Stories In Verse - Robert Stephens reads Browning and Longfellow
Daljit Nagra selects another highlight from the World Service poetry archive. From 1993.

Letters to a Young Woman Poet
Daljit Nagra selects another highlight from the BBC's poetry archive. With Grace Nichols.

Adventures in Poetry - “The quality of mercy is not strain'd”
Daljit Nagra celebrates Shakespeare with a highlight from the BBC's poetry archive.

Deaths Of The Poets and Terminates Here
Daljit Nagra selects two programmes from the rich seams of the BBC's poetry archive.

The Psalms
Daljit Nagra selects a programme from the BBC's poetry archives to mark Easter Sunday.

The Charge of the Light Brigade and Lament for the Death of a Bullfighter
4 Extra's listeners request their favourite programmes from the BBC's archive.

Ask Me: The Poetry of William Stafford
William Stafford wrote a poem every day. Katrina Porteous explores his life and his work.