Synopsis
BBC Poet in Residence, John Agard. His topic this tonight is Education after the schools minister had problems with his times tables this week and Oxford University students couldn't spell.
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Desert Island Discs | John Agard
Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the poet John Agard. Born in Guyana he arrived here in the mid-1970s already playing with words like some people play with musical notes. If his style is often satirical, his subjects provide wincing realism - examining the scars of slavery or the historical myopia of a shared past judged solely through European eyes.
Video Nation: John Agard | Grey
John Agard, the BBC poet in residence performs a poem about the British weather entitled "Grey".