Alfred Lord Tennyson mini season

Proms Literary Festival, August 2nd 8.20pm Andrew Motion talks to Matthew Sweet and introduces poems by Tennyson read by Fiona Shaw. Watch the video

Words and Music, August 9th, To strive, to seek, to find and not to yield. Tennyson bi-centenary programme. Readers : Beth Goddard and Michael Pennington.

Between the Ears August 15th,Tennyson in Skegness
An off beat look at Tennyson's relationship with the town where he wrote some of his most familiar verse.

Drama on 3 Saturday August 29th, Crossing the Bar - A headlong plunge into the sea-narratives of Alfred Lord Tennyson, with sea-songs from the acclaimed acappella trio Coope, Boyes and Simpson, centred around his most popular work Enoch Arden.

It was just the loud tick of the clock...

On the 1 July 09 edition of Breakfast Ian McMillan invited listeners to send in serious limericks and selected lines suggested by the audience to create the Breakfast limerick.

• Read the Breakfast limerick

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19 July 2009: Words and Music - Radio 3 presenters' recommended poems

As part of the BBC Poetry Season, a selection of poems recommended by BBC Radio 3 presenters together with music.

• Words and Music
• Radio 3 Presenters' recommended poems
• Radio 3 Presenters

2 Aug 2009 : Sunday Feature - Searching for Alfred In the Shadow of Tennyson

200 years after Tennyson's birth, poet Ruth Padel investigates his legacy in art, film and music of all kinds and reveals that Tennyson is a poet for our times as well as his own.

• Radio 3's Sunday Feature

3-6 Aug 09 : The Essay   - Tennyson 200

Four contemporary British poets each choose a single poem or extract by Tennyson and give a personal account of why it means so much to them.

• Radio 3's The Essay

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30 May 2009 : Music Feature - Ode to Whitman

Rob Cowan explores the enduring attraction to composers of the poetry of Walt Whitman, discovering the importance of song to the poet, and the inherently musical aspects of his writing.

• Radio 3's Music Feature strand

Shakespeare sonnets

Listen online to Sir Ian McKellen reading 14 sonnets.

24 May 2009 :   Sunday Feature - Children of the Whitsun Weddings

Poets Kate Clanchy and Paul Farley take a train through ‘Larkinland,’ as they explore their mutual admiration for Philip Larkin’s work.

• Radio 3's Sunday Feature

18 - 22 May 2009 :  The Essay - Under the Influence

Series in which contemporary poets write about others whose work has influenced their own.

• Broadcasts from Under the Influence and links to listen again

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