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Friday Feature: Mouth of a Demagogue, Eyes of a Poet

BBC Radio 3
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The socialist Victor Grayson won a parliamentary seat in a dramatic by-election in the Colne Valley in 1907. Young, dynamic and handsome, he won support across the country. Yet he abandoned politics after less than a decade and, in 1920, walked out of his London home and disappeared.
Simon Armitage investigates the charismatic Grayson in a new poem.
Producer Fiona McLean

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Victor Grayson
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Simon Armitage
Producer:
Fiona McLean
Source: Radio Times

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