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- ↑ BBC Radio 4 Publicity (29 April 2008). "Mr Larkin's Awkward Day". BBC Radio 4.
- ↑ Sony Radio Academy Awards, http://www.radioawards.org/winners/?awid=157&awname=The+Drama+Award&year=2009
- ↑ Motion, Andrew (1993). Larkin: A Writer's Life. London: Faber and Faber. pp. 266–7. ISBN 0-571-17065-X.
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