BBC radio programmes on Clare which you can catch online

All sorts of stuff on John Clare online, as listed below (click on the links):

BBC World Service (1991) ‘Omnibus: John Clare’

Ted Hughes reads John Clare ‘Nightingale’s Nest’, Westminster Abbey (1993)

BBC Radio 4 Programme (2004) ‘Open Country’

BBC Radio 4 Programme (2008) ‘John Clare The Lament of Swordy Well’

BBC Radio 4 Programme (2018) ‘In Our Time: John Clare’

BBC Radio 4 (2015) ‘Great Lives: John Clare’

Happy listening!

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Carry Akroyd exhibitions

Wildlife Printing exhibition from 2 March to 10 April at the Donald Watson Gallery, Waterston House, Aberlady EH32 OPY. For detail visit www.the-soc.org.uk.

At Brook Street Pottery in Hay on Wye from 11 May.

At Yew Tree Gallery at Morvah twixt St Ives and St Just in Cornwall, from 1 June.

Carry will be speaking about her work and John Clare’s poetry at Lincoln Wildlife Trust on 27 March, and later at Buford Festival and Earls Barton Festival.

Wednesday 27 Feb 2019

John Clare Symposium at The Judith E Wilson Theatre, Faculty of English, 9 West Road, Cambridge. John Clare and Song: exploring the relationship between Clare’s poetry, song and music. 10.45 to 3.30. Contact mg473@cam.ac.uk

Tues 26 Feb Centre for John Clare Studies discussion group

The February meeting will take place on Tuesday 26 Feb, 1 – 2 pm, with discussion led by Stephanie Kuduk Weiner on representations of agricultural labour. All welcome. http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/johnclare/

Tues 29 Jan Centre for John Clare Studies discussion group

The next meeting of the discussion group will take place on 29 January, 1 – 2 pm, in the Board Room (lst floor), Faculty of English, 9 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DP. Paul Chirico will introduce his current research on Clare in the 19th c press.

The 2019 John Clare Society Festival: 12 – 14 July

Plans for this are well underway – so, watch this space! In the meantime, put the dates in your diary.

Saturday 8 December 2 – 5pm in Folkstone

Jess Potter and Copy Press invite you to an afternoon of readings born from encounters between writing and the poetry of John Clare. At Strange Cargo, The Factory, Folkstone. For further detail, go to https://gallery.mailchimp.com/7e59bdcb2ef74b2d29cfb65dc/files/28bf8d1f-5c29-467f-86a2-c00ec2e22c06/R_R_FINAL_INVITE.pdf