It's a radio poetry slam. In this program from June 28, 1968; Shep reads poems from T.S. Eliot, Elizabeth Bishop, and Kenneth Patchen...all set to the soundtrack of "2001: A Space Odyssey".
"Strange Poetry" (June 28, 2020)
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