Prof. Karen Leeder was broadcast on BBC radio in December 2025
Poetry - Reading, writing, editing and translating
STW 22 December 2025 BBC Radio 4
How much can we truly know about the inner lives of others? Tom Sutcliffe is joined by Miles Leeson, Karen Leeder and Nick Makoha to reflect on the challenge of interpreting the minds and motivations of poets, both past and present.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002nttf
Wolf Biermann -The German Bob Dylan
Sunday feature 28 December 2025, BBC Radio 3
The incredible events that led to folk musician and protest singer Wolf Biermann - hailed as the German Bob Dylan - to be exiled from the GDR. Biermann’s expulsion in 1976 fuelled his popularity and triggered a mass protest movement that led to the exodus of many prominent artists and intellectuals from East Germany, along with the imprisonment of many freedom-of-speech campaigners. Biermann’s expulsion has been cited widely as one of the factors that led to the fall of the Berlin Wall thirteen years later.