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Radio 4,17 Jul 1976,30 mins

Philip Larkin

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Roy Plomley's castaway is poet Philip Larkin. Favourite track: I'm Down In The Dumps by Bessie Smith Book: The collected works by George Bernard Shaw Luxury: Typewriter and paper

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