Intro Text

In Our Time. BBC Radio 4 (2017)
Melvyn Bragg discusses John Clare with Sir Jonathan Bate, Provost of Worcester College, University of Oxford; Mina Gorji, Senior Lecturer in the English Faculty and fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge; and Simon Kövesi, Professor of English Literature at Oxford Brookes University. 1hr 28 mins.

Omnibus: John Clare, BBC World Service (1991)
27 mins.

Great Lives: John Clare, BBC Radio 4 (2015)
Matthew Parris talks to poet Wendy Cope about John Clare. Expert witness is John Clare’s biographer, Sir Jonathan Bate. 30 mins.

Readings

Ted Hughes reads ‘Nightingales Nest’ (1993)
Ted Hughes reads John Clare’s ‘Nightingales Nest’ at Westminster Abbey during the ceremony in which Clare’s plaque was unveiled in Poets’ Corner. Soundcloud: log-in required.