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1979: Walter McCorrisken, the world's worst poet

"Some people have funny ears, and ignorant people scoff. But if it wasn’t for your ears, your spectacles would fall off.”

Michael Parkinson interviews Walter McCorrisken, quite possibly the worst poet in the world.

Originally broadcast 14 November 1979

BBC Archive