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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 BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in July 2015.
Last on
Wed 23 Mar 202202:00
BBC Radio 4 Extra
Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Reader | Hannah Lowe |
| Author | Hannah Lowe |
| Abridger | Jill Waters |
| Producer | Jill Waters |
Broadcasts
Tue 28 Jul 201509:45BBC Radio 4 FM- Wed 29 Jul 201500:30BBC Radio 4
- Tue 22 Mar 202214:00BBC Radio 4 Extra
- Wed 23 Mar 202202:00BBC Radio 4 Extra
