"Seamus Heaney" (37 results)

Four Sides of Seamus Heaney | 01: Seamus Heaney – Poet of Place

Four Sides of Seamus Heaney | 01: Seamus Heaney – Poet of Place

BBC Radio 4 | 2023 | 27'45''

Seamus Heaney, one of the world's best loved poets, died ten years ago. In the first of four programmes...

Four Sides of Seamus Heaney | 02: Seamus Heaney – Love Poet

Four Sides of Seamus Heaney | 02: Seamus Heaney – Love Poet

BBC Radio 4 | 2023 | 27'44''

Seamus Heaney, a greatly loved poet when he died ten years ago, wrote great poems of love - love of differe...

Four Sides of Seamus Heaney | 03: Seamus Heaney – The Troubles

Four Sides of Seamus Heaney | 03: Seamus Heaney – The Troubles

BBC Radio 4 | 2023 | 27'49''

Gail McConnell explores how Seamus Heaney, who died ten years ago, responded in his work to The Troubles...

Four Sides of Seamus Heaney | 04: Seamus Heaney – The Translator

Four Sides of Seamus Heaney | 04: Seamus Heaney – The Translator

BBC Radio 4 | 2023 | 27'41''

Seamus Heaney wrote a dozen books of poetry. But throughout his life he also translated poems from oth...

Seamus Heaney: Out of the Marvellous | Heaney on learning to love poetry

Seamus Heaney: Out of the Marvellous | Heaney on learning to love poetry

BBC Four | 2014 | 1'59''

Heaney reads sections from his poems and talks about developing a love for poetry.

Seamus Heaney | Kirsty Wark Talks To

Seamus Heaney | Kirsty Wark Talks To

BBC Four | 2004 | 28'38''

Seamus Heaney talks to Kirsty Wark about his lifelong passion for poetry, living through the Troubles in Northern Ireland and his fascin...

Something to Write Home About: Seamus Heaney

Something to Write Home About: Seamus Heaney

BBC Four | 2013 | 28'48''

A tribute to Seamus Heaney, exploring his home ground, the boundaries and divisions and 'the possibility of true understanding'.

Arena | Seamus Heaney and the Music of What Happens

Arena | Seamus Heaney and the Music of What Happens

BBC Two | 2019 | 1'27'45''

A portrait of Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney. Six years after his death, his family recalls the experiences that ...

Seamus Heaney: Out of the Marvellous

Seamus Heaney: Out of the Marvellous

BBC Four | 2014 | 1'14'00''

Documentary about the poet Seamus Heaney, exploring the importance of his personal relationships to his writing and relating works to th...

English File | New Approaches: Poetry: Seamus Heaney

English File | New Approaches: Poetry: Seamus Heaney

BBC Two | 1991 | 28'59''

Poet Seamus Heaney, in his first appearance on TV for many years, reads ''Digging'' - the best known poem from his 1st c...

English File | Poetry Backpack: The poetry of Seamus Heaney

English File | Poetry Backpack: The poetry of Seamus Heaney

BBC Two | 1997 | 29'04''

A profile of the work of the poet Seamus Heaney. Aimed at GCSE level students.

Seamus Heaney: A Tribute

Seamus Heaney: A Tribute

BBC Two Northern Ireland | 2013 | 1'28'44''

To mark the passing of Seamus Heaney, BBC NI dedicates a night of programming drawn from its rich and unique archive.

Front Row | The Work, Life and Legacy of Poet Seamus Heaney

Front Row | The Work, Life and Legacy of Poet Seamus Heaney

BBC Radio 4 | 2019 | 28'14''

Seamus Heaney would have been 80 tomorrow. With poets, scholars, a composer and archive of the man himself Front ...

Desert Island Discs | Seamus Heaney

Desert Island Discs | Seamus Heaney

BBC Radio 4 | 1989 | 41'07''

Sue Lawley's castaway is Oxford Professor of Poetry Seamus Heaney.

Poetry Extra | Seamus Heaney – Out Of The Marvellous

Poetry Extra | Seamus Heaney – Out Of The Marvellous

BBC Radio 4 Extra | 2023 | 31'55''

Daljit Nagra selects Seamus Heaney - Out of the Marvellous with the Nobel Prize winner in conversation with Leon M...

The Essay | The Feast of Language: 1: Seamus Heaney

The Essay | The Feast of Language: 1: Seamus Heaney

BBC Radio 3 | 2011 | 13'23''

Poet Thomas Lynch looks to the work of the Irish poet and Nobel Prize-winner Seamus Heaney, whose death at the age of 74,...

Book of the Week | Seamus Heaney – Beowulf

Book of the Week | Seamus Heaney – Beowulf

Beowulf | BBC Radio 4 Extra | 2012 | 12'50''

A king is attacked by a demon. Can anyone help? Poet Seamus Heaney reads his own translation of the great Anglo-Saxon poem.

HARDtalk Extra | Seamus Heaney

HARDtalk Extra | Seamus Heaney

BBC World News | 2006 | 23'23''

Gavin Esler speaks to one of Ireland's most respected writers, the poet Seamus Heaney. He tells Gavin Esler why, since the start of Ireland's ...

The Piper and The Poet: Seamus Heaney

The Piper and The Poet: Seamus Heaney

BBC One Northern Ireland | 1999 | 50'23''

Words, music and imagery of Poet Seamus Heaney and Piper Liam O'Flynn.

Poets on Poetry | Seamus Heaney

Poets on Poetry | Seamus Heaney

BBC One | 1973 | 24'32''

Seamus Heaney talks to Patrick Garland on subject 'poetry is a perfect love match between the craft and the gift'.

Front Row | 100 Poems by Seamus Heaney, Jesse Jones, Ulysses at the Abbey Theatre

Front Row | 100 Poems by Seamus Heaney, Jesse Jones, Ulysses at the Abbey Theatre

BBC Radio 4 | 2018 | 28'29''

Live from Dublin, Seamus Heaney's wife and daughter discuss a new selection of his work, ch...

Philip Larkin: Poets’ Tributes | 01: Seamus Heaney Reads…

Philip Larkin: Poets’ Tributes | 01: Seamus Heaney Reads…

BBC Two | 1986 | 3'55''

In series in which poets read Philip Larkin's poems as tribute to him after his death in December 1985, Sea...

Arena | Seamus Heaney and the Music of What Happens: Out of the Bag’

Arena | Seamus Heaney and the Music of What Happens: Out of the Bag’

BBC Two | 2019 | 1'04''

A reading of Heaney's poem 'Out of the Bag'.

Open Country | Bellaghy – Seamus Heaney’s Homeplace

Open Country | Bellaghy – Seamus Heaney’s Homeplace

BBC Radio 4 | 2016 | 24'27''

Poet Seamus Heaney is Bellaghy's most famous son, Helen Mark discovers the place that he wrote about and meets th...

The Essay | Five Poems I Wish I Had Written: 1: Seamus Heaney’s ‘The Underground’

The Essay | Five Poems I Wish I Had Written: 1: Seamus Heaney’s ‘The Underground’

BBC Radio 3 | 2017 | 13'47''

Poet Don Paterson reflects with a mixture of admiration and rueful envy o...

Great Poets in Their Own Words | Seamus Heaney’s early poetry

Great Poets in Their Own Words | Seamus Heaney’s early poetry

BBC Four | 2014 | 3'22''

An exploration of Seamus Heaney's early poetry.

Reflections | Happy Birthday Seamus: Seamus at 60

Reflections | Happy Birthday Seamus: Seamus at 60

BBC One Northern Ireland | 1999 | 42'29''

Documentary celebrating the 60th birthday of Seamus Heaney, with archive footage.

Landscape | Bogland

Landscape | Bogland

BBC One Northern Ireland | 1978 | 19'55''

Seamus Heaney explores the bogland of Northern Ireland.

Landscape | The Loughsiders

Landscape | The Loughsiders

BBC One Northern Ireland | 1978 | 19'58''

Seamus Heaney travels across Lough Erne in Fermanagh, visiting early Christian sites and the settlements of the English and Scots who made their ...

Ulster in Focus | The Banks of the Bann

Ulster in Focus | The Banks of the Bann

BBC One Northern Ireland | 1973 | 19'46''

Seamus Heaney takes a look along the banks of the River Bann.

Ulster in Focus | A Christmas Garland

Ulster in Focus | A Christmas Garland

BBC One Northern Ireland | 1970 | 19'40''

Seamus Heaney reflects on the different ways of celebrating Christmas. Joined by local children at the Ulster Folk Museum in Northern I...

Viewpoint | Door into the Dark

Viewpoint | Door into the Dark

BBC One Northern Ireland | 1970 | 18'35''

Seamus Heaney talks about and reads poems at various locations in the West of Ireland.

Kirsty Wark Talks To | Ancient history in Heaney’s poetry

Kirsty Wark Talks To | Ancient history in Heaney’s poetry

BBC Four | 2004 | 3'17''

Seamus Heaney talks to Kirsty Wark about the influence of ancient history on his poetry.

Kirsty Wark Talks To | Clearances

Kirsty Wark Talks To | Clearances

BBC Four | 2004 | 1'01''

Seamus Heaney reads a section from his book 'Clearances'.

Kirsty Wark Talks To | Requiem for the Croppies

Kirsty Wark Talks To | Requiem for the Croppies

BBC Four | 2004 | 1'57''

Seamus Heaney discusses his poem 'Requiem for the Croppies'.

In Two Minds | The Planter and the Gael

In Two Minds | The Planter and the Gael

BBC One Northern Ireland | 1972 | 58'50''

Lawrence Pitkethly examines the cultures of the two traditions of society in Northern Ireland, including History, Education, Sport an...

Where Genesis Begins: Patrick Kavanagh

Where Genesis Begins: Patrick Kavanagh

BBC Two | 1979 | 49'29''

Seamus Heaney presents programme which examines the life & works of Irish poet Patrick Kavanagh, 1905-1967.
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