Episodes
| First Broadcast | Comments |
|---|---|
| 20090228 | 'Lee Hall - writer of Spoonface Steinberg and Billy Elliot - uncovers a hidden history of English poetry in which shipyard workers hang out with Allen Ginsberg and errant Geordie schoolboys commune with Ezra Pound. He focuses on the unlikely meeting between the poet Tom Pickard as a 16-year-old and one of the great modernists of English literature, Basil Bunting , that resulted in Newcastle flowering as an international centre for the Beatnik generation. Producer Kate Rowland Shortened rpt on Mon at 3pm' |
| 20090302 | Shortened repeat from Saturday at 8pm |