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This Be The Verse

January 22
52 mins

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Episode Description

This week, Tristram Fane Saunders surveys the poetic landscape; and Toby Lichtig on a rediscovered slice of life in 1930s Berlin.


'A History of England in 25 Poems', by Catherine Clarke

'Rhyme and Reason: A short history of poetry and people (for people who don't usually read poetry)', by Mark Forsyth

'Endless Present: Selected articles, reviews and dispatches, 2010-23', by Rory Waterman

'The Privatisation of Poetry', by Andy Croft

'Beautiful Feelings of Sensitive People: Screen grabs of British poetry in the 21st century', by Andrew Duncan

'Berlin Shuffle', by Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz, translated by Philip Boehm


Produced by Charlotte Pardy

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