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One of Pakistan's most renowned poets Professor Anwar Masood has been visiting England.

Well known for his Punjabi poems that pick out life's little nuances, he takes big ideas and wraps them into deceptively small packages.

For example his poem Chai versus Lassi, on the surface it's a description of a verbal battle between tea and the sweet yoghurt drink, but dig deeper and it's a complex commentary on how society has created hang ups around skin colour.

In this extract 大象传媒 Radio Manchester and Lancashire's Talat-Farooq Awan speaks to Professor Masood who is now in his late seventies. First he talks about how he got into writing poetry...