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The Read Season 1 Episodes

Season 1 Episode Guide

4 Episodes 2022 - 2023

Episode 1

The Lonely Londoners

59 mins

The Lonely Londoners is a creative reading of Sam Selvon's 1956 novel, portraying the Windrush Generation as they search for work and a prosperous future in late 1940s London.

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Episode 2

On the Black Hill

60 mins

Based on the 1982 novel, On the Black Hill is about identical twin brothers who grow up on a farm in rural Wales and never leave home.

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Episode 3

The Day of the Sardine

64 mins

Set in a working-class community in Newcastle at the beginning of the 60s, the story charts a young man's uneasy passage into adulthood.

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Episode 4

A Vision of Loveliness

58 mins

Liv Hill delivers a performance reading of "A Vision of Loveliness" by Louise Levene. A darkly comic novel that reveals the seedy underbelly of London in the 1960s, rich with period detail.

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