Philip Larkin
- Synopsis
- Interviews Larkin’s friends Kingsley Amis and Noel Hughes and talks to critics and admirers - Professor Christopher Ricks, the playwright Alan Bennett and the poet Andrew Motion - about Larkin and his work. Philip Larkin reads from, and talks about a number of his best known poems including ‘The Whitsun Weddings’ and ‘An Arundel Tomb’. Larkin only appears on the screen in photographs and in a clip from the 1964 MONITOR film made with Sir John Betjeman.
- Series
- South Bank Show, The: Series
- Language
- English
- Country
- Great Britain
- Medium
- Film; Video; Film. 16mm. sd. col. 53 min. Videocassette. VHS. col. 53 min.
- Technical information
- Black-and-white / Sound
- Year of production
- 1982
- Availability
- Hire
- Documentation
- literature students.*
- Subjects
- English language and literature
- Keywords
- Larkin, Philip; poetry; writers - English
Credits
- Director
- Andrew Snell
- Producer
- Andrew Snell
- Contributor
- Melvyn Bragg
Distribution Formats
- Type
- Film
- Format
- 16mm
Production Company
Distributor
- Name
Arts on Film Archive, University of Westminster
- Notes
- Arts on Film Archive offers on-line access to a large range of films on art produced in the United Kingdom since the 1950s, and is a unique record of British and international post-war art, as well as of documentary film-making in the UK. In its first phase, the archive offers a complete database and an on-line video streaming of all 450 films made by the film department of Arts Council England between 1953 and 1998 and several films produced till 2003 by the dance Department of ACE. The collection is only available streamed to ac.uk domain addresses.
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