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Poet Roger McGough
And your bird can sing Started conversation Jun 15, 2002
Does any one remember the name of a BBC drama series - set in the late 1950s/early 1960s which included a performance by Roger McGough as a Beat Poet? I want to know -it's really bugging me. I think the actor who played Billy Corkhill in Brookside was also in it...
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Poet Roger McGough
There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Posted Jun 15, 2002
No, and yes. And in that order 
Poet Roger McGough
Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted Jun 15, 2002
According to the IMDB, the only TV series Roger McGough did was Score with the Scaffold in 1970. Sound right?
Poet Roger McGough
Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted Jun 15, 2002
However a little more digging indicates he appeared in Eric Idle thing The Rutles as a poet...
Poet Roger McGough
And your bird can sing Posted Jun 15, 2002
Maybe I imagined the whole thing... It wasn't on tv that long ago - in the late 1990s, I think. It was a serious drama serial, of middling quality. I think it centred on the coming of age of a well-to-do factory owner's daughter who started Art school and entered bohemia at the precise moment that the whole Mersey beat thing started to happen. Hence MacGough's participation.I think it might have been produced by Mal Young when he moved to the BBC from Channel 4. It might have been called something like 'The Beat goes on'. But then again, I might have imagined the whole thing...
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