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Carrie Cracknell

Michel Faber

Peter Parker

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Katy Hickman

Start the Week: Love, Loss and Scandal

Love, Loss and Scandal

04/07/2016

BBC Radio 4 - Start the Week, Love, Loss and Scandal

Andrew Marr talks to Carrie Cracknell, Michel Faber, Peter Parker and John Preston.

Andrew Marr talks to theatre director Carrie Cracknell, poet Michel Faber, and biographers Peter Parker and John Preston.

On Start the Week Andrew discusses love, loss and scandal. Carrie Cracknell is directing Rattigan's The Deep Blue Sea, the story of an overpowering, self-destructive love affair set in post-war Britain. Michel Faber's collection of poetry explores the loss and grief at the death of his beloved wife, Eva. AE Housman wrote a series of poems at the end of the 19th century - A Shropshire Lad - which were hugely popular and came to encapsulate the nostalgia for an unspoilt pastoral idyll, but the writer Peter Parker says they're also shot through with unfulfilled longing for a young man. Homosexuality only became legal in the late 1960s and John Preston retells the story of the MP Jeremy Thorpe - a tale of sex, lies, murder and scandal at the heart of the establishment. 
Producer: Katy Hickman.

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