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Radio 4,17 Sep 2022,28 mins
Contains Strong Language Live from Birmingham
Available for over a year
Poet Luke Wright explores the city of Birmingham with four poets who have been inspired by it. Helping him to navigate his way around the city is Roy McFarlane, the former poet laureate of Birmingham and currently the Canal and River Trust’s Canal Laureate, Liz Berry who hails from the Black Country but for the last nine years has made Birmingham her home, Nafeesa Hamid who was born in Pakistan but bred in Birmingham and a true son of the city, Benjamin Zephaniah. Produced by Cecile Wright
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