Episode 2
Young Arthur Haggerston has left school in Newcastle in the early 60s with few prospects.
Sid Chaplin's acclaimed novel recounts how 50 years ago a Newcastle boy slipped into the treacherous waters of manhood. Adapted by Michael Chaplin.
Young Arthur Haggerston has left school in Newcastle in the early 60's with few prospects. A job delivering coal presents various temptations but ends suddenly, and his mother's lodger tells him he must find his own way through life, and not be a sardine swimming with the shoal.
Reader: Joe Caffrey
Producer: Jill Waters
A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4.
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- Tue 20 Sep 201122:45BBC Radio 4
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