# Mr Larkin's Awkward Day

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- Authors: [Chris Harrald](https://www.bookquiver.com/chris-harrald)
- Publisher: bbc_digital_audio
- Medium: audio
- Length: 43 min
- Narrated by: Adrian Scarborough, Anne Reid, Lynne Verrall
- ISBN: 978-14-0848-106-6
- Published: 2010-10-28
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Audiobook · 43 min

## Description

Chris Harrald's Sony Radio Academy Award-winning play takes a light-hearted look at a chaotic day in the life of an emerging poet. One morning in September 1957, Philip Larkin receives a very official looking letter which sends him into a spin. The events that unfold provide a delicious insight into Philip's character, with a tremendous sense of period. The Sony Gold citation said: 'Assured direction, excellent performances and concise, skilfully-researched writing all made this deceptively straightforward story a masterpiece. Funny and touching by turns, a single, seemingly insignificant incident in the life of Philip Larkin brought out the humanity and humour of a poet whose personal life is not commonly associated with either.' Starring Adrian Scarborough as Philip Larkin with a cast including Anne Reid, Lynne Verrall, Stephen Critchlow and Chris Pavlo.