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Poet or criminal? How should we remember Ezra Pound?

How should Ezra Pound's fascist politics affect our appreciation of his poetry?

Ezra by Bernard Kops is a play in the East End of London about Ezra Pound, the convicted American fascist and anti-Semite, who was a revolutionary modern poet. A look at some of the 3,000 paintings in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, "the art world's little bit of democracy". An exhibition at the Commonwealth Institute in London about the experience of young people in multi-racial Britain.

Presenter: Jim Hiley.

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Â鶹Éç World Service Archive

This programme was restored as part of the World Service archive project