Adventures in Poetry - Series 11
Peggy Reynolds explores the background, effect and lasting appeal of some well-loved poems
Adventures in Poetry - Series 11 - Episode 1
Peggy Reynolds opens a new series of Adventures in Poetry by asking what it is about Stevie Smith's poem "Not Waving but Drowning" which has kept it relevant since 1957.
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Adventures in Poetry - Series 11 - Episode 2
Was "the alternative Australian national anthem" written as a political statement or a way of impressing a girl? Peggy Reynolds examines Banjo Paterson's lyric Waltzing Matilda.
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Adventures in Poetry - Series 11 - Journey of the Magi
Journey of the Magi by TS Eliot. Peggy Reynolds investigates this strange and beautiful work, written as Eliot was preparing to join the Anglican Church in 1927.
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Adventures in Poetry - Series 11 - Kubla Khan
Peggy Reynolds explores the enduring appeal of one of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's greatest poems, Kubla Khan.
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Adventures in Poetry - Series 11 - The Gate of the Year
The Gate of the Year: Peggy Reynolds hears the story behind the poem King George VI quoted in his first Christmas broadcast on 25th December 1939.
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Adventures in Poetry - Series 11 - The Wreck of the Hesperus
Peggy Reynolds asks why one of the most popular poems of the 19th century, Longfellow's 'Wreck of the Hesperus', has subsequently fallen out of fashion.
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