麻豆约拍

The childhood of playwright John Osborne in Fulham where he was weaned on reproach and failure by his neurotically clean mother Nelly Beatrice. Read by Gareth Thomas.

John Heilpern's biography of the playwright who changed the face of British Theatre with an ironing board. Osborne's most famous protagonist Jimmy Porter first burst onto the English Stage in the ground-breaking play Look Back in Anger on the 8th March 1956.

Abridged by Robert Evans.

Producer: Lu Kemp

First broadcast on 麻豆约拍 Radio 4 in 2006.