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2025

Autism and the Arts: Poetry with Peter Street

Directed by Brett Gregory
Slaughterman. Gravedigger. War Poet.

Born in 1948, Peter Street struggled at school with epilepsy and illiteracy in Bolton, Lancashire, and, later in life, as a slaughterman, a gravedigger and a war poet. At 66 years old he was then diagnosed with autism, and his world changed forever.

Duration

0h 40m

Released

July 4, 2025

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Cast2

  • Peter Street
  • Peter D. Firth

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