John Phipps

A beautiful radio adaptation: Radio 4’s The Housing Lark reviewed

Plus: Radio 3 has turned Coleridge's 'lesbian vampire poem' Christabel into a tale about making a podcast – and it's even more boring than that sounds

Samuel Selvon, author of The Lonely Londoners, in 1958. Image: ANL / Shutterstock 
issue 17 October 2020
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    BBC Radio 4

  • Christabel

    BBC Radio 3

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