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The Verb Episodes

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    Christmas Nonsense

    Ian McMillan celebrates nonsense writing with Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler

  2. Sports Writing

    With Frank Skinner, Zaffar Kunial, Rob Drummond and Joseph Bond.

  3. To the Circus

    The Verb goes to the circus.

  4. The Male Body

    Ian McMillan with David Baddiel, Joanna Bourke, Wayne Holloway Smith and Rob Drummond.

  5. German poetry after the Berlin Wall

    Radio 3's weekly exploration of language and literature

  6. Novels that Shaped Our Language

    With Tim Minchin, Elif Shafak, Geoff Dyer and Kit de Waal

  7. Alone

    The language and literature of loneliness with Kate Carr and DJ Taylor.

  8. The Verb on Deep Time

    Ian McMillan on the writing of deep time - with poets Kathleen Jamie and Denise Riley.

  9. Molluscs

    Ian McMillan and guests, including novelist Jill Dawson on molluscs, slime and writing.

  10. The Verb from the Contains Strong Language Festival

    Ian McMillan presents The Verb from Hull with Stuart Maconie and other guests.

  11. The Verb from the Contains Strong Language Festival

    Ian McMillan explores translating and argumentation with Clare Pollard and other guests.

  12. The Verb at Contains Strong Language

    Ian McMillan is joined by Simon Armitage and other poets live from Hull.

  13. The Verb at The Proms

    Recorded at the 2019 成人快手 Proms.

  14. The Moon Verb

    With Ocean Vuong, Kate Fox, Rob Drummond, Ira Lightman and Mary Jean Chan.

  15. The Sound of Translation

    With Rowan Williams, Adam Thirlwell and Adania Shibli.

  16. The Common or Vulgar Verb

    with Philip Gross, Jacqueline Saphra, Cathy Rentzenbrink and Heather Phillipson.

  17. Silences and Poetry

    Ian is joined by poets Ilya Kaminsky, Simon Armitage and Julia Copus.

  18. Nice

    With Tessa Hadley, Brian Bilston and Jesse Schwenk.

  19. Young Artists - The Verb Takes Five

    With Jardel Rodrigues, Yandass Ndlovu, Willow Mirza, Alice Gretton and Jack Bernhardt.

  20. Aldeburgh

    Live from The Aldeburgh Festival with Lavinia Greenlaw, Fiona Sampson and Mark Padmore.

  21. The Hay Festival

    Ian McMillan is joined by John Lanchester, Hannah Sullivan, Rachel Parris and Nina Stibbe

  22. America

    With Tracy K Smith, Terrance Hayes and Sarah Churchwell.

  23. Along The River

    With Alan Hollinghurst, Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Jude Rogers and MacGillivray

  24. Speaking of Violence

    With Mark Haddon, Kate Fox and Rachael Allen.

  25. Insects and Language

    Ian McMillan and guests explore writing about insects.

  26. Writing the Gap

    Radio 3's weekly exploration of language and literature

  27. Romantic Dialogue

    With Kate Fox, Jenny Colgan, Matthew Ingram, Jarlath Killeen and Kiru Taye.

  28. Free Thinking - A Writer's Emotions

    Writing emotions with Aidan Moffat, RM Hubbert, Raymond Antrobus, Tara Bergin, Denise Mina

  29. Free Thinking - Leonard Cohen

    The emotional language of Leonard Cohen: loneliness, longing, desire and celebration.

  30. Myths Re-imagined

    With Richard Scott, Fiona Benson, Jack Bernhardt and Jenny Lewis

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