Richard Ayoade | The Unfinished Harauld Hughes
Recorded: Thu 24 Apr 2025
Duration: 1 hr
Richard Ayoade | The Unfinished Harauld Hughes
Spring 2025
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.
Beloved actor, comedian and author, Richard Ayoade, brings us his fictional memoir of a little-known and blazingly pretentious writer, poet and filmmaker. The Unfinished Harauld Hughes is vintage Richard Ayoade – the story of a quest by a self-confessed gifted filmmaker, corduroy activist and amateur dentist. Grab your tickets now!
In conversation with Alex Clark
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