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Classic Serial: The World According to Garp

Lee Ingleby

Adam Thomas Wright

Adam Greaves-Neal

Lyndsey Marshal

Miranda Richardson

Jonathan Keeble

John Guerrasio

Charlotte Emmerson

Carys Eleri

Harry Jardine

Emma Fielding

Amanda Hale

Nadia Molinari

Linda Marshall Griffiths

John Irving

Classic Serial: The World According to Garp: Episode 3

The World According to Garp

Episode 3

BBC Radio 4 - Classic Serial, The World According to Garp, Episode 3

Jenny becomes a nurse again, as she helps Garp to piece his life back together.

A devastating road accident has life-changing effects on Garp and his family. Stars Lee Ingleby and Miranda Richardson.

John Irving's best selling novel of lunacy and sorrow is dramatised by Linda Marshall Griffiths.

Jenny becomes a nurse again as she helps Garp to piece his life back together following the tragic car accident. Battling with loss and heartbreak, Garp finds salvation in his writing until violent and unexpected events strike.

This is the concluding episode of a three part dramatisation of a novel that is both acclaimed for its originality, and controversial for its dark representation of gender politics and sexual violence. Published in 1978 it went on to win the US National Book Award and was made into a film in 1982, it placed Irving firmly on the map as a leading novelist. 

Dramatist Linda Marshall Griffiths adapted Irving's A Prayer for Owen Meany for Radio 4 in 2009.

Directed by Nadia Molinari.

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John Irving's audacious and darkly comic bestseller about the life and times of TS Garp

John Irving's audacious, darkly comic and heartbreaking bestseller about the life and times of TS Garp

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