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Episode 2

Poet Hannah Lowe maps the story of her cardsharp father Chick on to the pattern of her own life. With Colin Salmon.

Hannah Lowe traces her father's childhood with his own cruel father and his escape to Liverpool and London in the late 1940s.

Poet Hannah Lowe - who grew up in 1980s Essex with a half-Chinese, half-black father - recreates his childhood in Jamaica and young adult years in the decades before he met her mother.

Read by the author.

With the recreated and imagined sections of Chick鈥檚 life read by Colin Salmon.

Abridged and produced by Jill Waters.

A Waters Company production for 大象传媒 Radio 4, first broadcast in July 2015.

15 minutes

Last on

Wed 23 Mar 2022 02:00

Credits

Role Contributor
Reader Hannah Lowe
Author Hannah Lowe
Abridger Jill Waters
Producer Jill Waters

Broadcasts

  • Tue 28 Jul 2015 09:45
  • Wed 29 Jul 2015 00:30
  • Tue 22 Mar 2022 14:00
  • Wed 23 Mar 2022 02:00