Across ten programmes and ten Philip Larkin poems, Simon Armitage, the poet laureate, finds out what happens when he revisits and unpicks Larkin's work in his centenary year. Show more Across ten ...

For their first episode together, recorded in 2017, Mark Ford and Seamus Perry look at the life and work of Philip Larkin, a poet written about extensively ... and I think the erotic is also crucial ...

Book of the Week. Hattie Morahan reads Paula Byrne's joyous and illuminating new biography of the novelist Philip Larkin regarded as the 20th century's very own Jane Austen.