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The Need For Nonsense
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  • Published: 1 July 2011
  • ISBN: 9781445863726
  • Imprint: BBC DL
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 0 hr 43 min
  • Narrators: Andrew Sachs, Alexi Kaye-Campbell, Mark Meadows, Ross McKendrick, James Rastall, Kim Hicks
  • RRP: $8.99
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The Need For Nonsense

A BBC Radio 4 dramatisation

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Andrew Sachs stars in this BBC Radio 4 'Afternoon Play' about painter Edward Lear.

Julia Blackburn's play captures the warm, heartfelt and comic story of the Victorian poet and painter Edward Lear's lifelong friendship with his eccentric Greek servant, Giorgio, who inspired him to address the painful truths in his life while making us laugh. Stars Andrew Sachs as Edward Lear and Alexi Kaye-Campbell as Giorgio Kokalis. Also featured in the cast are Mark Meadows, Ross McKendrick, James Rastall and Kim Hicks. Directed by Mary Ward-Lowery. The Need for Nonsense was originally broadcast on 9 February 2009, and repeated on 17 January 2011.
  • Published: 1 July 2011
  • ISBN: 9781445863726
  • Imprint: BBC DL
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 0 hr 43 min
  • Narrators: Andrew Sachs, Alexi Kaye-Campbell, Mark Meadows, Ross McKendrick, James Rastall, Kim Hicks
  • RRP: $8.99
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About the author

Julia Blackburn

Julia Blackburn has written a number of books of non-fiction, fiction and poetry. The Three of Us won the J. R. Ackerley Award, Threads won the East Anglian Book of the Year Award and the New Angle Prize, Time Song was shortlisted for the Wainwright Book Prize, and Thin Paths was shortlisted for the Costa Prize for Biography. Her two novels, The Book of Colour and The Leper’s Companions, were both shortlisted for the Women’s Prize. She lives in Suffolk and Italy.
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Also by Julia Blackburn

Dreaming the Karoo
Time Song
Threads
Thin Paths
The Three of Us
My Animals and Other Family
With Billie
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