Twenty Minutes

The Importance of Elsewhere

Thursday 29 September 2005 20:20-20:40 (Radio 3)

When Philip Larkin arrived in Belfast in the autumn of 1950 to join the staff at Queen's University Library, he began a five-year period of unprecedented creativity, which saw a promising writer blossom into one of the pre-eminent poets of his generation.

Simon Callow, himself a former student at Queen's University, visits Larkin's Belfast and finds the people and places behind the poems of The Less Deceived, published to great acclaim 50 years ago.

Duration:

20 minutes

Twenty Minutes

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