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29/06/2013

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Poet Brian Patten explores the 1960s counter-culture through its radically risqué poetry.

Poet Brian Patten explores the 1960s counter-culture through its radical and occasionally risqué poetry. From June 2013.

Brian Patten, one of the original Liverpool poets, explores how radical, subversive and occasionally risqué poetry - rooted in the counter-culture of the late 1960s - became available to a mass audience at the end of a phone line for the first time. 

Dial-a-Poem changed the public face of poetry for generations.

Producer: Llinos Jones
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