This first clip is from the Power of Poetry from 2018. You're going to hear two beautiful poems, one planned and one spontaneous. Our host, the BBC Ceremonteague, begins with a question for publisher and philanthropist William Seacart. He's now got to the point where you could, I suppose, like when you go to a GP and they're just tapping into the computer where you can say, what's your problem? Well, yes and no.

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