The Poetry Channel
The Podcasts
The Poetry Channel is where you’ll find the finest poets, poems and poetry, for anyone anywhere online.
It’s where you’ll find poetry podcasts – broadcast quality programmes created from the very best of the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival’s rich audio archive plus newly recorded, specially commissioned interviews.
The Poetry Channel is where you can have access to the best poets through behind the scenes interviews and short documentaries and profiles. It’s where you’ll find The Poem Show – each episode featuring hand-picked highlights from memorable Aldeburgh performances.
It’s where you’ll want to spend some online time - you can browse the complete Poetry Channel Archive here.
And don’t forget to let us know what you think about the podcasts ( drop us an email) and tell us what you would like to hear next on The Poetry Channel.
All podcasts produced by Apercu Media
Seamus Heaney - The Poetry Prom - audience Vox Pop
Over 800 people enjoyed an evening in the extraordinarily good company of Seamus Heaney at the 2010 Poetry Prom in August. For those who weren't able to attend in person and for those who want to relive the night a new podcast will soon be available on The Poetry Channel featuring highlights of the evening. Enjoy this taster/teaser(!) of an audience Vox Pop following the reading.
Download podcast Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe with RSSPoem Show summer special
We're having our own Fringe Festival on The Poetry Channel this August with a new Poem Show celebrating three of the UK's most entertaining poets. Enjoy the late, great Adrian Mitchell with ‘A Puppy Called Puberty' - which was premiered at the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival 2005 on R4's Kaleidoscope (back in those pre-Front Row days) and ended up on BBC Pick-of-the-Year. Matt Harvey celebrates the joys of office pilfering in his hilarious poem ‘Works Perks' and Helena Nelson - finds more words to rhyme with banana than you would think possible in a poem originally recorded at her triumphant Poetry Prom in 2007.
Download podcast Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe with RSSAll the latest from the Bard of Wimbledon
Join the Bard of Wimbledon - Matt Harvey - as he reflects on the great British sport of queuing and takes a look at the tennis as well. Amidst the sound of popping champagne corks and the thwok of balls he "inflicts his poetry - in a well meaning sort of way" on the fans at SW19.
Download podcast Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe with RSSJoin Wimbledon Poet Matt Harvey on Henman Hill
Is it Henman Hill or Murray Mound? As Matt Harvey, the first Wimbledon Championships Poet, says 'hills are fickle features'. Join Matt as he reads 'thowk' - fast becoming the fans favourite Wimbledon poem.
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