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The Beat Goes On
When, in 1958, Jack Kerouac 's novel On the Road was published in Britain its impact was electric, inspiring a crop ofnew"Beat" prose and poetry which was antiestablishment in content, spontaneous in form and liberating in spirit. Thirty years on, Ian McMillan meets some survivors of those heady years and finds them mostly unrepentant life-long members of a movement that changed their lives. Producer Dave Sheasby. Stereo

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Unknown:
Jack Kerouac
Unknown:
Ian McMillan
Producer:
Dave Sheasby.
Source: Radio Times

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