The Sound Design Verb

Ian McMillan celebrates spectral spaces, the pulse of the body, and the power of repetition, in a Verb which showcases emerging talent - new sound designers from the Sound First scheme (a collaboration between BBC Contains Strong Language and Radio 3). Ian is joined by the songwriter, producer and sound designer Benbrick, the poet, playwright and performer Hannah Silva, and Sound First participant Noah Lawson, to explore what sound design can bring to poems, and what sounds are buried in poems themselves. The poems in this show - which the Sound First sound designers used as the basis for their work - were all commissioned for The Verb's 'Something New' series, marking 100 years of poetry on the BBC.

Sound First work featured: Listening to Tennyson - poem by Rachael Boast, sound designer Noah Lawson Companion Piece - poem by Glyn Maxwell, sound designer Joe Chesterman The Truth is Never Too Old - poem by Roy McFarlane, sound designer Emily Kiely