Episode
World Cup poetry: Lines for the beautiful game
- Podcast
- The Documentary Podcast
- Published
- Jun 15, 2026
- Duration seconds
- 1590
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- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0nrp3w8
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Summary
Describing the joy (and heartache) of football is the job of commentators at this summer's FIFA World Cup in America, Canada and Mexico. In the Studio hears how the loyalties of California's poet laureate Lee Herrick are divided between the USA and his birth country, South Korea, while UK poet Ian McMillan finds inspiration for a new poem in the lines on the pitch.