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Long Time No See by Hannah Lowe: Episode 2

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Episode 2

Long Time No See by Hannah Lowe

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A story of a father and a daughter - and of games of chance from Jamaica to Ilford, Essex.

Poet Hannah Lowe maps the story of her cardsharp father Chick on to the pattern of her own life.  With Colin Salmon.

Hannah Lowe traces her father's childhood with his own cruel father and his escape to Liverpool and London in the late 1940s.

Poet Hannah Lowe - who grew up in 1980s Essex with a half-Chinese, half-black father - recreates his childhood in Jamaica and young adult years in the decades before he met her mother. 

Read by the author.

With the recreated and imagined sections of Chick’s life read by Colin Salmon.

Abridged and produced by Jill Waters.
 
A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in July 2015.

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