Bernadette Brennan
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419 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2018
last heard 29 May
Bernadette Brennan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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in a way no other work has.
Its improbably reflexive, intersecting, multi-layered plots grow so entirely from tragedies of character and history that they're almost invisible.
Yes.
And he meets this man, boy really, called Sullivan Backhouse.
And Sullivan is in this facility for people who have polio, but adults and just briefly Frank's in it.
Sullivan is in an iron lung.
He's so badly affected by polio that he's actually needs help breathing.
But I love
Sullivan Backhouse.
I think he's one of the most beautifully moving characters I've read in a long, long time.
Yeah, he's the aide-de-camp, yeah.
Yeah, so we find him in this lung and Frank's rolling in in his wheelchair to visit him and he's composing these lines of poetry, staring at a white ceiling.
And then we find out, you know, he had been in this rowing team.
He was the second eldest of four brothers.
They'd lived in this house with a garden that ran down to the Swan River and he had the world
At his feet, he was off to university to read English, which Frank thinks is an amazing concept because isn't that what we all do, read English?
Exactly.
Yeah, heartbreak.
But maybe we should explain a little bit of more of that world that Ferenc, his name actually, isn't it?
Not just Frank, it's Hungarian, it's
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