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

Name

London Weekend Television

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.