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4 Extra Debut. When ‘Rabbit’ Angstrom joins a basketball game, it underlines all that is wrong with his life. Read by Toby Jones.
The post-war novel that summed up middle-class white America and established John Updike as the major American author of his generation.
Rabbit, Run is the first in a virtuoso Pullitzer Prize-wining quintet featuring hapless Harry Angstrom.
We meet him as a 26-year-old former high school basketball star and suburban paragon in the midst of a personal crisis.
When Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom joins an impromptu basketball game, he sets in motion a chain of decisions that will free him from the responsibilities of adult life - or so he hopes.
Abridged in ten parts by Eileen Horne
Read by Toby Jones.
Producer: Clive Brill
A Brill production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in April 2017.
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Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Reader | Toby Jones |
| Author | John Updike |
| Abridger | Eileen Horne |
| Producer | Clive Brill |
Broadcasts
Mon 17 Apr 201722:45BBC Radio 4- Sat 16 Nov 201921:45BBC Radio 4
- Mon 8 Jan 202421:30BBC Radio 4 Extra
