Nancy Pearl
This is a role play interview with one female student playing the role of Nancy Pearl and a male student portraying Allan Sillitoe.
In particular, the interview focuses on Sillitoe's book, "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner", which was published in 1959, and won the Hawthornden Prize in the same year.
The book, which is essentially a collection of short stories, was so well received that it was turned into a film in 1962.
The interview covers many of the book's themes, such as loneliness, isolation, rejection, and most especially, the suffocation of working class life in post-war England and their parallels with Sillitoe's life itself.
The interview also touches on
Sillitoe's role as part of the Angry Young Men movement, which articulated a sense of lost identity felt by many of the lower class at this time. This loss often manifested itself as anger and epitomized the stereotype of gender specific roles in society.
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