Tangier's curious Beat generation heritage The new film about Jack Kerouac - On the Road - takes us back into the angst ridden, hard drinking and living world of the Beat generation poets. One place you might not necessarily connect with this group of era-shaping American writers is Tangier. Yet Jack Kerouac and most of the other Beats all went to this northern Morocco port town and together they left it with a curious literary heritage, as Sylvia Smith reports. Get in touch with Fast Track via