Autism and the Arts: Poetry with Peter Street ambient background
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Autism and the Arts: Poetry with Peter Street backdrop

Autism and the Arts: Poetry with Peter Street

Autism and the Arts: Poetry with Peter Street

2025•40m•Documentary

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.

Brett Gregory · Director

StatusReleased
Runtime40m
LanguageEN
Release DateJul 4, 2025
Budget$10,000

Actors

Peter Street

Himself

Peter D. Firth

Narrator

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