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♞ Life-sized chess pieces, alcohol-guzzling nuns and crucified, naked, bespectacled men. The story of British Surrealism began not in Bohemian London but in a Birmingham suburb. Of course it did.

Comedian and writer Stewart Lee revels in the story of The Balsall Heath Bohemians.

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Collage illustrating Stewart Lee's Radio 4 programme about the Birmingham origins of British surrealism. Amongst the Birmingham buildings and iconic celebrities, Stewart looks out with his usual wry half-smile.
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