Our guest today is Kate Romano. Kate is the CEO of arts centre Stapleford Granary which recently dedicated a whole weekend to celebrating many different aspects of Philip Larkin’s life, photography, jazz and poetry. Gavin and I were lucky enough to be able to head down there and enjoy the events as well as running a PLS stall in the middle of it all, talking about all things Larkin to the good people of Cambridgeshire.  Kate joined me to reflect back on the weekend and what she learned about Larkin in the process as well as to look at Broadcast, The Mower, Church Going and Lines on a Young Lady’s photograph album in particular. 

https://www.staplefordgranary.org.uk/whats-on/events

Michael Symmons Roberts https://symmonsroberts.com/

Wendy Cope https://www.faber.co.uk/author/wendy-cope/

John Betjeman- Death In Leamington

 Life, Art and Love by James Booth (Bloomsbury, 2014)

The Importance of Elsewhere by Richard Bradford, with an introduction by Mark Howarth-Booth ( Frances Lincoln, 2015)

The Sunday Sessions https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571244058-the-sunday-sessions/

Monica Jones, Philip Larkin and Me: Her Life and Long Loves by John Sutherland (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2021)

Larkin poems discussed:

Lines on A Young Lady’s Photograph Album, Church Going, Broadcast, The Mower

Music: 

Nobody’s Sweetheart; Mckenzie and Condon’s Chicagoans

One Hour: Mound City Blues Blowers

Produced by Lyn Lockwood and Gavin Hogg

Please email Lyn at ⁠plsdeputychair@gmail.com ⁠ with any questions or comments

PLS Membership, events, merchandise and information: philiplarkin.com