Tom Paulin on the Rhyming Weavers

The Blackstaff Press first published John Hewitt’s ‘Rhyming Weavers and other Country Poets of Antrim and Down’ in 1974: now it has been reprinted. One of the poems in the collection, James Campbell’s ‘The epicure’s address to bacon’ was read by John Clifford on a BBC Radio Ulster programme made in 1975, written and presented by John Hewitt himself - and we hear a couple of extracts from the programme. The new foreword for the re-published book was written by Tom Paulin and he talks to Conal Gillespie about his memories of the first edition of the anthology. (Broadcast 10th October 2004)