Blake Morrison - And When Did You Last See Your Father?
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With James Naughtie. Poet Blake Morrison talks about his memoir of growing up in Yorkshire in the fifties and sixties, the son of two local GPs. It's an honest account...
show moreThe book also movingly chronicles his father's death in 1991, and attempted to resolve some of the secrets in his father's life.
First published in 1993, And When Did You Last See Your Father? became a bestseller, was adapted into a film starring Colin Firth and Jim Broadbent, and inspired a whole genre of literary confessional memoirs. Recorded at the Ilkley Literature Festival, Yorkshire.
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Presenter : James Naughtie
Interviewed Guest : Blake Morrison
Producer : Dymphna Flynn.
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