I am honoured and delighted to have taken part in the BBC Radio 4 programme Artworks celebrating 40 years of Poems on the Underground.
You can listen to the episode here.
With thanks to producer Mair Bosworth for inviting me to talk about my encounter with Carol Ann Duffy’s ‘Words, Wide Night’ somewhere between Swiss Cottage and St John’s Wood.
Happy new year!
Published by Anthony Wilson
I am a lecturer, poet and writing tutor. I work in teacher and medical education at the University of Exeter. My anthology Lifesaving Poems was published by Bloodaxe Books in 2015. In 2012 I published Riddance (Worple Press), a collection of poems, and Love for Now (Impress Books), a memoir, about my experience of cancer. The Wind and the Rain, my sixth collection of poems, is available now from Blue Diode Publishing. My current research project, funded by the Foyle Foundation, is Young Poets' Stories: https://youngpoetsstories.com/. This blog is archived by the British Library.
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I keep getting 404 errors with the ‘listen to’ links. The only one I could get to was the one for Carrl Ann Duffy, but then within that the link to listen to her poem also throws a 404 error.
e.g. https://www.bbc.com/audio/play/m002pdv6
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I’m very sorry you are not able to open up the links to the programme. It is possible that they are only available in the UK – and that you are based somewhere else? The link on the page of Carol Ann Duffy’s poem was indeed broken. Here is a link to Tom Hiddleston reading it on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-511793251/words-wide-night-by-carol-ann-duffy-read-by-tom-hiddleston With good wishes, Anthony
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I am in the US, though I don’t usually have any issues with BBC sites. Thank for the soundcloud link.
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I’m sorry. Hmmm, that is strange. Can you access it on BBC Sounds?
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I don’t know what to look for in BBC sounds. So the url I am using, that I put in my initial reply, works for you if you click on it? I have tried different devices but it still comes up with a 404
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