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The Unfinished Harauld Hughes
- Author
- Richard Ayoade
- Narrator
- various
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Publish Date
- 1 October 2024
- Run Time
- 4 hours 13 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Rating
- 3.0 (2 reviews)
What to expect
The gifted filmmaker, corduroy activist and amateur dentist, Richard Ayoade, first chanced upon a copy of
The Two-Hander Trilogy by Harauld Hughes in a second-hand bookshop. At first startled by his uncanny resemblance to the author's photo, he opened the volume and was electrified. Terse, aggressive, and elliptical, what was true of Ayoade was also true of Hughes's writing, which encompassed stage, screen, and some of the shortest poems ever published.
Ayoade embarked on a documentary,
The Unfinished Harauld Hughes, to understand the unfathomable collapse of Hughes's final film
O Bedlam! O Bedlam!, taking us deep inside the most furious British writer since the Boer War.
This is the story of the story of that quest.
User Reviews
Book 3.0
Narration 4.5
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5.0 5.0
Just brilliant. If you like Richard Ayoade you will like this. I got the audio version because this book has to be heard with his voice.
FatPossum 2025-04-14
Details
- Author
- Richard Ayoade
- Narrator
- various
- Duration
- 4 hours 13 minutes
- Release Date
- 1 October 2024
- ISBN
- 9780571392452
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Genre
- Humour, Film history, theory or criticism
- Rating
- 3.0(2 reviews)
- Narration
- 4.5(2 reviews)
Synopsis
The gifted filmmaker, corduroy activist and amateur dentist, Richard Ayoade, first chanced upon a copy of The Two-Hander Trilogy by Harauld Hughes in a second-hand bookshop. At first startled by his uncanny resemblance to the author's photo, he opened the volume and was electrified. Terse, aggressive, and elliptical, what was true of Ayoade was also true of Hughes's writing, which encompassed stage, screen, and some of the shortest poems ever published. Ayoade embarked on a documentary, The Unfinished Harauld Hughes, to understand the unfathomable collapse of Hughes's final film O Bedlam! O Bedlam!, taking us deep inside the most furious British writer since the Boer War. This is the story of the story of that quest.
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