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Classic Serial: The World According to Garp

Miranda Richardson

Lee Ingleby

John Guerrasio

Charlotte Emmerson

Lyndsey Marshal

Jonathan Keeble

Adam Thomas Wright

Adam Greaves-Neal

Carys Eleri

Harry Jardine

Nadia Molinari

Linda Marshall Griffiths

John Irving

Classic Serial: The World According to Garp: Episode 2

The World According to Garp

Episode 2

BBC Radio 4 - Classic Serial, The World According to Garp, Episode 2

Jenny becomes an ardent feminist, whilst her son tries to emulate her writing success.

Jenny becomes an ardent feminist, whilst her son tries to emulate her writing success. Stars Lee Ingleby and Miranda Richardson.

John Irving's acclaimed novel is dramatised by Linda Marshall Griffiths.

Garp writes his first novel and marries Helen. When his mother publishes her autobiography she becomes a feminist icon overnight and Garp's adolescent adventures become public property. It isn't easy being the son of the famous Jenny Fields. Jenny inspires a whole generation of women, including the radical Ellen Jamesians. Lust, lunacy and loss thread their way through Garp's life as he vainly tries to protect those he loves.

This is the second 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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