A dramatisation of Julia Darling's web diary. The writer began writing the poignant, honest funny weblog three years before her death in 2005, to chart her battle with breast cancer.
Cast:
Julia Darling.........Charlie Hardwick
Featuring poems and music by Tim Dalling, Pete Challower and Charlie Hardwick.
Produced & Directed by Susan Roberts
From 2007.
Size 41MB. Length 44 Minutes. Bitrate 128kbps
Julia Darling was born in 1956 in the Winchester house that Jane Austen died in. She moved to Newcastle upon Tyne in 1980 and began her writing career as a poet.
Her first full-length collection of poems, Sudden Collapses in Public Places, was awarded a Poetry Book Society Recommendation.
In 1995 she published a book of short stories titled Bloodlines, many of which were broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Following this, her first novel, Crocodile Soup, was published in 1998. The novel went on to be published in Canada, Australia, Europe and the United States and was long-listed for the Orange Prize.
Her second novel, The Taxi Driver's Daughter, was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize and short-listed for the Encore Award.
Darling was a fellow of Literature and Health in the English School at Newcastle University and received the prestigious Northern Rock Foundation Writer's Award, the largest annual literary award in England.
Darling also worked on a number of arts and health projects, including with elderly people in residential homes for Equal Arts, and ran drama workshops for doctors and patients with the project 'Operating Theatre'.
Sadly, Darling died from breast cancer in 2005, aged just 48.
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Looks really interesting albeit a bit sad...Thanks for posting !