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Last broadcast on Mon, 2 Mar 2009, 15:00 on BBC Radio 4 (FM only) (see all broadcasts).
Synopsis
Lee Hall, writer of Billy Elliot and The Pitmen Painters, uncovers a hidden history of English poetry. Stretching back to the Dark Ages and emerging in 1960s Newcastle, Lee reveals an alternative tradition of English poetry as the preserve of ordinary working people.
Sunderland cork cutters, shipyard workers and pit men encounter Walt Whitman, Allen Ginsberg and Ezra Pound. And how a meeting between a 16-year-old schoolboy and one of the great modernists of English literature, Basil Bunting, contributed to the flowering of the north east as an international destination for the whole Beatnik generation.
Broadcasts
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Sat 28 Feb 200920:00
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Mon 2 Mar 200915:00
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