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Episode 2
Episode 2 of 5
Poet Hannah Lowe maps the story of her cardsharp father Chick on to the pattern of her own life. With Colin Salmon.
Hannah Lowe traces her father's childhood with his own cruel father and his escape to Liverpool and London in the late 1940s.
Poet Hannah Lowe - who grew up in 1980s Essex with a half-Chinese, half-black father - recreates his childhood in Jamaica and young adult years in the decades before he met her mother.
Read by the author.
With the recreated and imagined sections of Chick’s life read by Colin Salmon.
Abridged and produced by Jill Waters.
A Waters Company production for ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4, first broadcast in July 2015.
Last on
Wed 23 Mar 2022
02:00
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
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Credits
Role | Contributor |
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Reader | Hannah Lowe |
Author | Hannah Lowe |
Abridger | Jill Waters |
Producer | Jill Waters |
Broadcasts
- Tue 28 Jul 2015 09:45ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 FM
- Wed 29 Jul 2015 00:30ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
- Tue 22 Mar 2022 14:00ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
- Wed 23 Mar 2022 02:00ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra