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A Better Class of Person

A Better Class of Person by John Osborne: 2. I Don't Want to End Up in a Dead-and-Alive Hole

John Osborne - A Better Class of Person

2. I Don't Want to End Up in a Dead-and-Alive Hole

A Better Class of Person by John Osborne

BBC Radio 4 Extra - A Better Class of Person by John Osborne, 2. I Don't Want to End Up in a Dead-and-Alive Hole

The writer recounts his formative years, a peripatetic life thanks to his mother's whims.

The writer recounts his formative years, a peripatetic life thanks to his mother's whims and father's work. Read by Peter Egan. From 1993.

John Osborne recounts his formative years - a peripatetic life thanks to his mother's whims and his father's work.
 
Highly acclaimed first volume of the playwright's autobiography - covering 1929 to 1956 when 'Look Back in Anger' was first performed.

Read by Peter Egan.

Abridger/Producer: Glyn Dearman

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1994.

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Autobiography of dramatist John Osborne, based on his childhood and early life.

Autobiography of dramatist John Osborne, based on his childhood and early life and published in 1981. Read by Peter Egan.

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