V caused a furore when it was aired on Channel 4 in 1987 A controversial 1985 poem by British writer Tony Harrison, which includes profanities and racial epithets, is to be broadcast on Radio 4 ...

says the first he knew about the original furore was when a make-up assistant handed him a copy of the Daily Mail on the set of V, in the Leeds graveyard mentioned in the poem. "It guaranteed Tony ...