Free Thinking Festival
Friday 16 November 2007 21:45-22:30 (Radio 3)
Ian McMillan with the weekly cabaret of language and new writing, live from the Free Thinking Festival in Liverpool.
Playlist
This week, a special edition of the The Verb recorded at Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival in Liverpool.
Ian McMillan was joined on the Free Thinking stage by poets Paul Farley and Eleanor Rees who discussed the existence, or otherwise, of Free Verse and the influence of the Mersey Sound anthology which celebrates its fortieth anniversary this year.
Acclaimed new playwright Lizzie Nunnery also reflected on that famous collection with a brand new play based on the work of one of the three Mersey poets, Adrian Henri.
Roy Carruthers and Alan Stocks perform Lizzie's play, The Duchess of Upper Duke Street.
There's a performance from Liverpool singer Candie Payne and The Verb's resident Eartoonist, Peter Blegvad.
Andraste's Hair by Eleanor Rees is published by Salt
Tramp in Flames by Paul Farley is published by Picador
I Wish I Could Have Loved You More by Candie Payne is on Deltasonic Records
The Mersey Sound by Adrian Henri, Roger McGough and Brian Patten is published by Penguin Classics
Selected and Unpublished Poems by Adrian Henri is published by Liverpool University Press
