SERIES 2: EPISODE 1: Telling stories with the poet Ian McMillan

SERIES 2

Episode 1: Dodging Falling Trees with Ian McMillan 

The poet Ian McMillan, presenter of The Verb on BBC Radio 3 and poet-in-residence at Barnsley Football Club, tells stories by the yard - eccentric, ridiculous, compassionate and wise. Ian has lived in the same South Yorkshire village of Darfield his entire life and writes about it with a unique mix of pride and hilarity. He's a performance poet and author of biographical stories such as My Sand Life, My Pebble Life: a Memoir of Childhood and the Sea, and Neither Nowt Nor Summat, a perplexed rummage in the mystery of what it means to be 'Yorkshire enough'. His writing has readers weeping with laughter, but there's deep human kindness in there too.  Ian and Charlie start their walk in the graveyard of Darfield Church, but they don't get very far before trees intervene...