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Letters to a Young Poet and Super-Infinite
Daljit Nagra selects two highlights from the BBC's poetry archive.

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.

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.