Radio

Stanza

Stanza
(BBC Radio 4)
Presenter.
Armitage presented Stanza, BBC Radio 4's contemporary poetry programme (x4 series).

Second Draft from Saga Land

Second Draft from Saga Land
(BBC Radio 3)
Writer and Presenter (with Glyn Maxwell).
Six programmes for BBC Radio 3, retracing the footsteps of W.H.Auden and Louis MacNeice during their visit to Iceland in 1936.

Eyes of a Demigod

Eyes of a Demigod
(BBC Radio 3)
Writer.
A forty-minute commissioned dramatisation of the life and times of politician Victor Grayson in prose and verse.

The Amherst Myth

The Amherst Myth
(BBC Radio 4)
Writer and Presenter.
A forty-minute documentary feature on Emily Dickinson set in Amherst, Mass.

Trading Places

Trading Places
(BBC Radio 4)
Interviewer.
A series of ten interviews with leading British, Irish and American poets.

Points of Reference
(BBC Radio 4)
Writer and Presenter.
Four thirty-minute programmes, in verse, on the theme of navigation and orientation.

From Salford to Jericho

From Salford to Jericho
(BBC Radio 4)
Writer.
Ninety-minute verse drama.

To Bahia and Beyond

To Bahia and Beyond
(BBC Radio 3)
Writer and Presenter (with Glyn Maxwell).
Five thirty-minute verse/travelogue features from Brazil and the Amazon for BBC Radio 3.

Jerusalem

Jerusalem
(BBC Radio 4)
Writer.
Three half-hour episode radio drama for BBC Radio 4.

The Bayaux Tapestry

The Bayaux Tapestry
(BBC Radio 3)
Writer (with Geoff Young).
Six-part dramatisation of the Battle of Hastings for BBC Radio 3.