For the last few days Hay has been buzzing with gossip about the dirty
tactics that hijacked the recent elections to the Oxford poetry
professorship.
In today's programme, Ruth Padel explains why she felt
she had to resign the post, and we ask some of her fellow poets for
their views on the scandal that has rocked the poetry world.
Meanwhile, John Harris talks politics with the scourge of new Labour Roy Hattersley, and explains why he's now a convert to proportional representation.
Finally, Andrew Dickson finds out why playwright Arnold Wesker has restyled himself a bard of the Black Mountains, and why he is planning to leave the area soon.
