The Unfinished Harauld Hughes
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Richard Ayoade
About this listen
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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- FruityBinch666
- 22-01-2025
parody of a pastiche?
let’s pretend either of us understand those two words for a moment to let me say, if you like a philip larkin glasses mention and laughing quietly to yourself at a brecht joke: this is the book for both you and me. <3
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- Anonymous User
- 06-11-2024
Ayoade
A bit of Pinter, Welles and Ayoade for a few hours. What a joyful, elegant piece.
Have listened twice through now and it's my favourite of all Dicky's works. Shame it isn't getting the promotional push it deserves as he's really figured out his literary voice.
He's always playing with an intrusive Id character - the brash lout Ayoade in Ayoade on Ayoade, Gordy Lasure, Simon in The Double - that is usually bouncing off a timid well mannered super ego, in line with Ayoade's own public persona. Harauld Hughes is his subtlest and most compelling character of the lot and the search for the truth of his character in the vox pops of those who knew him is as much about him as it is the glorious knobheads in his incestuous little circle. Fucking joyous
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