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John Cooper Clarke and Mike Garry

Mary Anne Hobbs invites poetry to reign supreme - John Cooper Clarke delivers a Key of Life interview and Mike Garry explains why poetry is important.

Mary Anne Hobbs invites poetry to reign supreme.
Punk Poet John Cooper Clarke has been delighting audiences with his poetry for decades. In his Key Of Life interview he talks to Mary Anne about his childhood, his love of words, music and crafting his poems.
Mike Garry has been touring with John Cooper Clarke for the last couple of years. He teaches poetry in schools, and passionately believes in inspiring confidence in young people through the medium. His Three Minute Epiphany is entitled: 'Why Is Poetry Important?'.

3 hours

Last on

Sat 26 Oct 2013 07:00

Music Played

  • Stevie Wonder

    Boogie On Reggae Woman

    • Motown.
  • 笔辞濒颈莽补

    Chain My Name

    • Memphis Industries.
  • Marika Hackman

    Cinnamon

  • Radiohead

    Paranoid Android

    • Parlophone.
  • Manic Street Preachers

    Anthem For A Lost Cause

    • Columbia.
  • Grandmaster & Melle Mel

    White Lines (Don't Don't Do It)

    • Island.
  • The White Stripes

    My Doorbell

    • XL.
  • Lorde

    Royals

    • Virgin.
  • The Rolling Stones

    Everybody Needs Somebody To Love

  • Tired Pony

    The Creak In The Floorboards

    • Fiction / Polydor.
  • Ramones

    Rockaway Beach

    • Rhino.
  • SUNRISER

    • David Bowie

      Love is Lost (Hello Steve Reich Mix by James Murphy for the DFA)

      Remix Artist: James Murphy.
  • The Chemical Brothers

    Let Forever Be

    • Astral Werks.
  • Franz Ferdinand

    Evil Eye

    • Domino Recording Co.
  • 3 MINUTE EPIPHANY

    • Mike Garry: Why Is Poetry Important?

      Mancunian poet Mike Garry explains the importance of poeticism.

  • The Style Council

    Speak Like A Child

    • Polydor.
  • Lou Reed

    Vicious

    • RCA.
  • Cults

    I Can Hardly Make You Mine

    • Sony Music.
  • Luniz

    I Got 5 On It

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin Records America Inc.
  • The Sugarhill Gang

    Rapper's Delight

    • Global Television.
  • Midlake

    The Old And The Young

    • Bella Union.
  • KEY OF LIFE

    • John Cooper Clarke (Part 1)

      Cooper Clarke on his childhood.

  • Louis Prima, Phil Harris & Bruce Reitherman

    I Wan'na Be Like You (The Monkey Song)

    • The Very Best Of Disney.
  • KEY OF LIFE

    • John Cooper Clarke (Part 2)

      Cooper Clarke on his dancing style.

  • Nirvana

    Molly's Lips

    • Incesticide.
    • 6.
  • Depeche Mode

    Should Be Higher

    • Columbia.
  • Danny Brown

    The Return (feat. Freddie Gibbs)

  • 搁耻苍鈥怐.惭.颁.

    You Be Illin'

    • London.
  • Foals

    Out Of The Woods

    • Transgressive Records.
  • KEY OF LIFE

    • John Cooper Clarke (Part 3)

      Cooper Clarke on how he writes.

  • Arctic Monkeys

    Fluorescent Adolescent

    • CD SINGLE.
    • Domino.
  • TOY

    Join The Dots

  • Savages

    Husbands

    • Matador.
  • Pretenders

    Stop Your Sobbing

    • Real.
  • Grace Jones

    Williams' Blood

    • CD SINGLE.
    • Wall Of Sound Recordings.
    • 1.
  • Johnny Marr

    European Me

    • Warners.
  • Goldfrapp

    Annabel

    • Mute.
  • DJ Shadow

    Midnight In A Perfect World

    • Mowax.
  • Austra

    Forgive Me

    • Olympia.
    • Domino.
    • 002.

Broadcast

  • Sat 26 Oct 2013 07:00