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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Jude Rogers

The week in audio: Lucky Boy; Moorgate; Thirty Eulogies; Harford: An Oral History and more – review

Firefighters on the wreckage of the train in the Moorgate tube train crash
Firefighters on the wreckage of the train in the Moorgate tube train crash, an event dramatised ‘in a piece of time travel’ in a two-part Radio 4 drama. Photograph: PA

Lucky Boy (Tortoise Media)
Moorgate (Radio 4/BBC Sounds)
Thirty Eulogies (Radio 4/BBC Sounds)
Harford: An Oral History (Dan Hooper)
Lauren Laverne (Radio 6 Music/BBC Sounds)

“In that summer, it was me and her against the world. We were powerful, right?” On Tortoise Media’s new four-part podcast, Lucky Boy, Gareth (not his real name) is remembering his first love. He was 14 then, bright but a “misfit”, having a secret relationship. She was 27 and a teacher. Lucky Boy is how Gareth thought of himself at the time; nearly 40 years later, he thinks the opposite.

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