EPISODE · Oct 28, 2010 · 4 MIN
Mr Larkin's Awkward Day: A Sony Radio Academy Award-Winning Play by Chris Harrald
from Get Best Full Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, Arts & Entertainment · host Mack Mante
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/384266 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mr Larkin's Awkward Day: A Sony Radio Academy Award-Winning Play Author: Chris Harrald Narrator: Anne Reid, Adrian Scarborough, Lynne Verrall Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 43 minutes Release date: October 28, 2010 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Chris Harrald's Sony Radio Academy Award-winning play takes a light-hearted look at a chaotic day in the life of an emerging poet. One morning in September 1957, Philip Larkin receives a very official looking letter which sends him into a spin. The events that unfold provide a delicious insight into Philip's character, with a tremendous sense of period. The Sony Gold citation said: 'Assured direction, excellent performances and concise, skilfully-researched writing all made this deceptively straightforward story a masterpiece. Funny and touching by turns, a single, seemingly insignificant incident in the life of Philip Larkin brought out the humanity and humour of a poet whose personal life is not commonly associated with either.' Starring Adrian Scarborough as Philip Larkin with a cast including Anne Reid, Lynne Verrall, Stephen Critchlow and Chris Pavlo.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/384266 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mr Larkin's Awkward Day: A Sony Radio Academy Award-Winning Play Author: Chris Harrald Narrator: Anne Reid, Adrian Scarborough, Lynne Verrall Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 43 minutes Release date: October 28, 2010 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Chris Harrald's Sony Radio Academy Award-winning play takes a light-hearted look at a chaotic day in the life of an emerging poet. One morning in September 1957, Philip Larkin receives a very official looking letter which sends him into a spin. The events that unfold provide a delicious insight into Philip's character, with a tremendous sense of period. The Sony Gold citation said: 'Assured direction, excellent performances and concise, skilfully-researched writing all made this deceptively straightforward story a masterpiece. Funny and touching by turns, a single, seemingly insignificant incident in the life of Philip Larkin brought out the humanity and humour of a poet whose personal life is not commonly associated with either.' Starring Adrian Scarborough as Philip Larkin with a cast including Anne Reid, Lynne Verrall, Stephen Critchlow and Chris Pavlo.
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