The Less Deceived full reading for Larkin's birthday
This year we celebrate Larkin’s birthday and the 70 year anniversary of the publication of The Less Deceived with a full reading of Larkin's second collection.We begin with an introduction to the collection with regular attendees of the podcast, our chair Graham Chesters and trustee Philip Pullen, and we reflect on some of the history of the publication of The Less Deceived.Thank you to all the people that have helped produce this podcast.A special thank you to our chair Rosie Millard, who was of enormous help with making the recording of Sir Tom Courtenay reading Church Going. Readers:Lines on a Young Lady's Photograph Album Philip PullenWedding-Wind Lynn HarrisonPlaces, Loved Ones Julia MunrowComing Brian BilstonReasons for Attendance Daniel WainDry Point Michael EganNext, Please Dr Andrew PalmerGoing Greg SesteroWants Joe MalagoMaiden Name Mary MccollumBorn Yesterday Cate BlanchettWhatever Happened? Melissa DennisonNo Road Hannah SullivanWires David Biespiel Church Going Sir Tom Courtenay Age Dr Jane BluettMyxomatosis Daniel VinceToads Justine GaubertPoetry of Departures Prof Douglas BellTriple Time Jacqueline BaronSpring Cate BlanchettDeceptions Hannah SullivanI Remember, I Remember Brian BilstonAbsences Sinead MorrisseyLatest Face Gerry SkeensIf, My Darling Alex Howard Skin Marco PirroniArrivals, Departures Jeremy WikeleyAt Grass Julian WildReferences:Early Larkin by James Underwood (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021)Pretending to Be Me by Tom Courtenay (2003) https://www.amazon.co.uk/Pretending-Be-Me-Philip-Portrait/dp/1405500824Jean Hartley- Philip Larkin, The Marvell Press and Me (Faber, 2011)Philip Larkin, Life, Art and Love by James Booth (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014)TS Eliot- The Four Quartets (Faber, 1941)On First Looking into Larkin’s The Less Deceived A T Tolley 2 The paper first delivered at the 2003 Conference https://philiplarkin.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/About-Larkin-18.pdfThe background to the article in the Beverlonian that Graham refers to is referenced in Philip Pullen’s piece in About Larkin 45 about the Beverley walkhttps://philiplarkin.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/About-Larkin-45.pdfhttps://rosiemillard.substack.com/p/what-will-survive-of-usMusic: Home Cooking by Eddie Condon and his Orchestra from the Larkin’s Jazz box set, 2010 https://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/jul/22/various-artists-larkins-jazz-reviewTheme music:The Horns of the Morning by Wes Finch and the Mechanicals Bandhttps://themechanicalsband.bandcamp.com/album/the-righteous-jazzProduced by Lyn Lockwood, Simon Galloway and Gavin HoggPlease email Lyn at plsdeputychair@gmail.com with any questions or commentsPLS Membership, events, merchandise and information: philiplarkin.com