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Michael Palin - Hemingway's Chair: Episode 1

Michael Palin - Hemingway's Chair

Episode 1

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Michael Palin - Hemingway's Chair, Episode 1

Assistant postmaster Martin conceals a secret all-consuming passion for the words of Papa.

Assistant postmaster Martin conceals a secret all-consuming passion for the words of Papa. Written and read by Michael Palin.

Assistant postmaster Martin Sproale is pinning his hopes on a promotion in the quiet coastal town of Theston.

But the area manager has his own plan to push the old-fashioned post office into the hi-tech 21st century...

Michael Palin begins a ten-part reading of his first novel.

Producer: Rosemary Watts 

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1995.

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A mild and conventional assistant postmaster has an obsession with the great writer

Comic novel about a mild and conventional assistant postmaster who has an obsession with the life, work and personality of Ernest Hemingway

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