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John Bird talks to Peter Florence – The Necessity of Poverty

Winter Weekend 2012, 
The founder of The Big Issue mounts a blistering attack on orthodox thinking around the gap between rich and poor, sparing neither himself nor others in identifying what needs to be done to end poverty.