BBC R4 Documentary - 'Another History of English Poetry'
Alternative title 'A Strong Song Tows Us'
Presented by Lee Hall
Broadcast February 28, 2009
Coded from a digital source at 128/44.1

An alternative tradition of English poetry.

Cork cutters, shipyard workers and pit men
encounter Walt Whitman, Allen Ginsberg and
Ezra Pound.

How a meeting between a schoolboy and Basil
Bunting contributed to the flowering of the
north east as a destination for the Beatnik
generation.
 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/archiveon4.shtml