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On a hot Cheshire day in 1959, the family gets stuck in traffic. Blake Morrison reads his memoir of his father.

On a hot Cheshire day in 1959, the family gets stuck in traffic.

But Blake Morrison's dad is an impatient and cantankerous doctor who does not take delays very well and takes silly risks.

Could a medical operation finally defeat him?

Blake Morrison's award-winning tribute to his father - an irascible Yorkshire GP.

Omnibus of the first five of nine episodes abridged and read by the author.

Producer: Di Speirs

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1994.

1 hour, 10 minutes

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Mon 13 Oct 202502:30
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