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The Verb

Radio 3's cabaret of the word, featuring the best poetry, new writing and performance

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The Wellbeing Verb

The Wellbeing Verb

January is a month of resolutions and fresh starts, of gyms and diets. This week Ian McMillan and guests tackle the lang... Read more

26 Jan 2018

48mins

Ranked #2

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John Ruskin

John Ruskin

Ian McMillan celebrates the bicentenary of writer, artist and critic John Ruskin, alongside US fiction writer Kristen Ro... Read more

8 Feb 2019

44mins

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Writing The Midlands

Writing The Midlands

The Verb explores 'The Midlands' - with the novelist Jonathan Coe - on using the Midlands 'to think with' in his new bo... Read more

2 Nov 2018

49mins

Ranked #4

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The Scrolling Verb

The Scrolling Verb

How has the scrolling we do on social media changed writers and readers, and what does it have in common with ancient sc... Read more

8 Dec 2017

49mins

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Algorithms

Algorithms

Can algorithms help writers think more clearly and create innovative work ? On this week's 'Algorithm Verb' Ian McMillan... Read more

20 Apr 2018

43mins

Ranked #6

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America

America

The Verb does a deep dive into the word 'America' - why does it have such a hold on the imagination? Ian's guests are Tr... Read more

24 May 2019

44mins

Ranked #7

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Christmas Nonsense

Christmas Nonsense

The Christmas Verb rejoices in the pleasure of nonsense language, nonsense stories, ridiculous rhymes and things that ma... Read more

20 Dec 2019

44mins

Ranked #8

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The Moon Verb

The Moon Verb

This week, Ian McMillan and the guests shoot for the moon.Ian is joined by Ocean Vuong, winner of the 2017 TS Eliot priz... Read more

19 Jul 2019

50mins

Ranked #9

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07/12/2018

07/12/2018

With Will Eaves, Ben Schott, Selina Nwulu and Jeremy Noel-Tod

7 Dec 2018

49mins

Ranked #10

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Northern Rocks

Northern Rocks

The Verb explores the language and literature inspired by northern rocks - with Benjamin Myers, Bella Hardy, M. John Har... Read more

29 Jun 2018

48mins

Ranked #11

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German poetry after the Berlin Wall

German poetry after the Berlin Wall

Ian McMillan explores German poetry after the fall of the Berlin Wall – with two of Germany’s most celebrated and ground... Read more

15 Nov 2019

46mins

Ranked #12

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Myths Re-imagined

Myths Re-imagined

This week The Verb is looking at modern retelling and remixing of ancient stories. Jenny Lewis discusses her book 'Gilga... Read more

15 Mar 2019

49mins

Ranked #13

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The Festival Verb

The Festival Verb

Ian McMillan peers into the pop-up tent that is 'festival' writing with Murray Lachlan Young - he introduces new fiction... Read more

25 May 2018

54mins

Ranked #14

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The Sound of Translation

The Sound of Translation

The 'feel' of another language and the impact of its sound is hard to convey in translation. Are there ways to be more f... Read more

12 Jul 2019

44mins

Ranked #15

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Don Paterson

Don Paterson

The Verb this week is an extended conversation with the poet, editor, mentor, teacher and aphorist Don Paterson. Don Pat... Read more

25 Jan 2019

47mins

Ranked #16

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Unwritten

Unwritten

To mark 100 years since the end of the First World War, The Verb presents ‘Unwritten’, a special edition of the programm... Read more

9 Nov 2018

59mins

Ranked #17

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The Verb

The Verb

Ian McMillan with writing inspired by molluscs (snails, slugs, and cockles) - he's joined by the novelist Jill Dawson on... Read more

18 Oct 2019

44mins

Ranked #18

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Fighting Talk

Fighting Talk

How do you write a fight? Ian McMillan and Hollie McNish are joined by Ross Sutherland, Ben Crystal, Willy Vlautin and T... Read more

2 Feb 2018

44mins

Ranked #19

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Autism: poetry, language and writing

Autism: poetry, language and writing

Examining autism, and the experience of being autistic through comedy, poetry, fiction and footnotes with guests Henry N... Read more

4 May 2018

50mins

Ranked #20

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Puns and Wordplay

Puns and Wordplay

Puns have a long history in human writing. Most of us recognise them as those little gems of comedy genius that make yo... Read more

24 Jan 2020

46mins

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