Craig Cheetham / A Kestrel For A Knave

Craig Cheetham / A Kestrel For A Knave


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You can hear CRAIG CHEETHAM in Robert Rigby’s dramatisation of Barry Hines’s 1968 coming-of-age novel A KESTREL FOR A KNAVE this Saturday the 7th of September on BBC Radio 4 at 3pm.

Set in a mining town in South Yorkshire, young Billy Casper is ridiculed and bullied at home and at school but he discovers meaning and purpose in his harsh day-to-day existence when he finds a beautiful kestrel he calls Kes. Life fleetingly takes on direction, meaning and some small status for Billy as he trains his hawk, but will this kind-of-contentment be short-lived?


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