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4. Reform

Episode 4 of 10

Rabbit returns home and is waylaid by a young Episcopalian minister on a mission to reform him. Read by Toby Jones.

Rabbit returns home to get his things and is waylaid by Jack Eccles, a young Episcopalian minister on a mission to understand and reform him – or at least get a game of golf.

The post-war novel that summed up middle-class white America and established John Updike as the major American author of his generation.

Rabbit, Run is the first in a virtuoso Pulitzer Prize-wining quintet featuring hapless Harry Angstrom.

We meet him as a 26-year-old former high school basketball star and suburban paragon in the midst of a personal crisis.

Abridged by Eileen Horne

Read by Toby Jones.

Producer: Clive Brill

A Brill production for ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 4, first broadcast in April 2017.

14 minutes

Last on

Thu 11 Jan 2024 21:30

Credits

Role Contributor
Reader Toby Jones
Author John Updike
Abridger Eileen Horne
Producer Clive Brill

Broadcasts

  • Thu 20 Apr 2017 22:45
  • Sat 7 Dec 2019 21:45
  • Thu 11 Jan 2024 21:30