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Poet Benjamin Zephaniah on library funding cuts
Benjamin Zephaniah tells the Politics Show libraries were his life saver.
The internationally acclaimed poet who now lives in South Lincolnshire says that at thirteen he was handling guns as part of the gang culture in his native Birmingham.
"I found poems and found libraries," he says. "This was my school, my life, my little university," he tells Sharon Edwards of the Politics Show Yorkshire and Lincolnshire.
He supports the idea that volunteeers could step in if it saves rural libraries in his adopted county.
