TONY HARRISON RESOURCES...

Resources to assist the understanding of Tony Harrison's poetry...
Below is a PODCAST created from inside my own mind....
https://soundcloud.com/fishymedia/tony-harrisonthis-pen-is-all-i-have-of-magic-wand
Below is a discussion of V broadcast on BBC radio 4...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oW49WJ0F2HM
This is the film of V broadcast on Channel Four in 1987...IT CAUSED A FUSS because of the taboo language that litters the poem....below is the link to the first section of the YOU TUBE resource..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPutBM7zfv8
Part two..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htVdIq8ID_g
Part Three..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgsJSAJwmOQ
Part Four...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtEaDEdh2zE

Brilliant Radio Resources....
Discussion of V on Radio 4's BOOKCLUB...This was broadcast in 2016.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07dk0y1
The Sunday Feature from BBC Radio 3...A profile of Tony Harrison...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08n1yl6
John Tusa interview from 2001...first broadcast on BBC Radio 3...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00nc89r


Newspaper/online articles....
BBC..
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21024372
The Guardian...
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/feb/18/tony-harrisons-poem-v-working-class
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/apr/28/the-guardian-view-on-tony-harrison-a-peoples-poet
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/mar/31/poetry.tonyharrison
The Independent...
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/its-the-famous-poem-that-drew-high-praise-and-huge-offence-but-does-tony-harrisons-v-still-have-the-8458044.html
Prospect magazine...The Bard of Beeston..
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/tony-harrison-the-bard-of-beeston
The Yorkshire Post...
https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/analysis/tony-harrison-the-yorkshire-poet-with-an-ear-for-the-heartbeat-of-language-1-8502035