Michael Bakewell

Fat Man on a Beach

Michael Bakewell, B. S. Johnson

B. S. Johnson

A poet of forty wanders about the beach, changes his clothes when he feels like it, reads his poetry, reminisces engagingly, and reflects on life. Looking rather like Max Bygraves gone to seed, he keeps up a patter full of original jokes, interspersed with powerful verse about life and death.

The Power of the Witch: Real or Imaginary?

Michael Bakewell, Doreen Valiente

A rare documentary about witchcraft, shown on the BBC in the early 1970s.