Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Harry Harrison is probably the best-known person in the industrial heartland of England. As a rhymester and comedian he performs in pubs all over the Black Country, where his particular brand of poetry and humour reflects the life and times of the region of which he is so fiercely proud.

Introduced by René Cutforth.


Clip taken from Look Stranger: Pint to Pint Poet, originally broadcast on BBC Two, 14 September, 1976.





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