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Book at Bedtime: Julian MacLaren-Ross - Of Love and Hunger

Book at Bedtime: Julian MacLaren-Ross - Of Love and Hunger: Episode 3

Of Love and Hunger

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Julian MacLaren-Ross - Of Love and Hunger

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Looking after Derek's wife Sukie, salesman Richard is sacked and joins rival firm 'Sucko'.

Looking after Derek's wife Sukie while he is at away sea, salesman Richard is sacked and joins rival firm 'Sucko'. Read by Carl Prekopp.

3/5 Julian Maclaren-Ross' darkly comic semi-autobiographical novel about the low life of a struggling salesman in a seaside town. With the shadow of war looming, Richard Fanshawe is eking out an existence in a boarding house. He's trying in a half-hearted way to sell vacuum cleaners door-to-door. He's been asked by his friend, Roper, to look after his wife, Sukie, while he's away at sea. Then Fanshawe is sacked from his job, and joins up with rival firm "Sucko". First published in 1947. 

Abridged by Lauris Morgan-Griffiths
Reader: Carl Prekopp
Producer: Beth O'Dea

Music: The Touch Of Your Lips by Hildegarde.

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Darkly comic novel about the low life, as lived by a struggling salesman in 1939

By Julian Maclaren-Ross. Darkly comic novel about the low life, as lived by a struggling salesman in a seaside town in 1939. Read by Carl Prekopp.

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