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Down Cemetery Road with Philip Larkin and John Betjeman (Part 1)

1964

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Philip Larkin talks to John Betjeman in 1964 about his life, his poetry and the city of Hull, where he lived and worked as university librarian. With readings from his work, the poet explores the life of a rapidly modernising Hull.

Chapters

• Down Cemetery Road with Philip Larkin and John Betjeman (Part 2)

  9 min 22 sec

• Down Cemetery Road with Philip Larkin and John Betjeman (Part 3)

  5 min 44 sec

• Philip Larkin reads Aubade

  3 min 16 sec

• Church Going with Larkin and Betjeman

  2 min 3 sec

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