Something New

Published: April 7, 2023, 9 p.m.

Ian McMillan is joined by poets Michael Symmons Roberts, Kate Fox, Jacob Polley and sound designer Amanda Priestley to celebrate the rich variety of new poetry commissions written for the BBC's centenary year. The show includes work from the Sound First scheme (Radio 3 and BBC Contains Strong Language working together to find the best emerging sound design talent in the UK) - three poems with evocative sound design. Also, we share the very last commission in our Something New series, by Sin\xe9ad Morrisey - called Charm.

Sound First work featured:

Speaker - poem by Jacob Polley, sound designer Nicky Elson\nAtlas - poem by Joelle Taylor, sound designer Amanda Priestley\nRoot Your Words in the Earth - poem by Malika Booker, sound designer Louis Blatherwick