Could the clarity of his poems have emerged from… I was a panicky teenager with a chaotic home life, but the profound clarity of his poems showed me a… Larkin argues that those who don’t fear death ...

Professor Paul Crawford's acclaimed novel, The Wonders of Doctor Bent, reveals how idealising mums and dads can hide the ...

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 in the archive of the London Review of Books ...

Deliciously addictive, it’s a ham and cheese toastie of an album, where Heaton snuggles into his familiar persona as a sort ...