Poetry Extra: Street Reach Girls

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Weekly opportunity for listeners to revisit the riches of the BBC radio poetry archive

A brand new poetry slot on Radio 4 Extra gives listeners a weekly opportunity to revisit the riches of the BBC radio poetry archive

Street Reach Girls

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Daljit Nagra chooses 'Street Reach Girls', presented by Barnsley poet Ian MacMillan.

Daljit Nagra chooses 'Street Reach Girls', presented by Barnsley poet Ian MacMillan. From August 1999.

Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's radio poetry archive with 'Street Reach Girls'. 

At a drop-in centre in Yorkshire prostitutes get more than just condoms, health advice, showers and tea: they get Barnsley poet Ian McMillan to help them write poems about their life. 

A documentary with verse that tells their story, written by Ian and the Street Reach Girls. 

Produced in Bristol by Mark Jobst.   

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1999.

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