Centre for John Clare Studies meetings 2022

Tuesday 25 January at 1pm. Rob Hamberger will be speaking about his book, A Length of Road.

Tuesday 22 February at 1pm. Tim Fulford will be talking about his recent work on Robert Bloomfield.

The meetings take place in the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge – open to all. For information, contact sh250@cam.ac.uk.

‘The Meeting’ project

The film of the panel discussion about ‘The Meeting’ (poem and song versions) – recorded in Cambs in late April – is now live and online. Another strand of the project – an album of Julian’s newly-composed fiddle music and more poetry readings by Toby (audio this time) – will be available later this summer.

Film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_JMae81jYU

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!