Richard Ayoade | The Unfinished Harauld Hughes
Thu 24 Apr 2025 | 7:30pm - 8:30pm
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
Venue: TTP Stage (Cambridge Union)
Duration: 1 hour
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Author Biography
Richard Ayoade is a writer and director. In addition to directing and co-writing Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace, he has adapted and directed Jo Dunthorne’s novel Submarine for the screen and is the co-writer (with Avi Karine) and director of the film The Double. As an actor he is best known for his roles as Dean Learner in Darkplace and Maurice Moss in the Emmy Award-winning The IT Crowd, for which he was awarded a BAFTA for Best Performance in a Comedy.
Chair Biography
Alex Clark is a broadcaster and journalist, who writes for many publications including the Guardian, the Observer, and the Times Literary Supplement. She was the co-host on the Graham Norton Book Club for Audible and hosts the TLS podcast. She is a professional chairperson and appears all over the UK at Cheltenham, Hay and the Southbank Centre. Alex is a festival honorary patron and now lives in Ireland.
