A BBC RADIO 4 RAYMOND CHANDLER FULL-CAST DRAMATISATION Raymond Chandler was born in Chicago in 1888 Marlowe went on to star in almost all Raymond R A Y M O N D but moved to England with his mother when Chandler’s major works and with Farewell My he was twelve after his parents’ divorce . He was Lovely (1940) and The Long Goodbye (1954) educated at Dulwich College, London and studied Chandler cemented his reputation as a giant international law in France and Germany . He of American popular culture and master of a published a number of poems and essays in local style of detective fi ction that would be widely papers and worked as a reporter, essayist and admired and imitated . book-reviewer before emigrating to the United Chandler turned to screenwriting in 1943 States in 1912 . After serving for the Canadian Army with Double Indemnity and worked closely with C H A N D L E R during the First World War he tried a variety of director Billy Wilder . He continued to write jobs before becoming a bookkeeper and auditor for Hollywood for the next four years, during for Dabney Oil Syndicate . In 1924 he married Pearl the heyday of the Hollywood studio system, Cecily Hurlburt . receiving an Oscar nomination for The Blue When Chandler lost his job during the Great Dahlia (1946) . Depression, he decided to devote himself to In 1946 Chandler received an Edgar Award from writing . He began writing short stories for E the Mystery Writers of America for screenplay TH BIG Black Mask Magazine, the best known of the and in 1954 for novel writing . During the last ‘hard-boiled’ school of pulp fi ction magazines . year of his life he was made President of the In 1939 he published his fi rst novel The Big Sleep to Mystery Writers of America . He died from instant acclaim in Britain and the US, introducing pneumonia in 1959 . SLEEP the world to his iconic private eye, Philip Marlowe . 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Email: info@audiogo .co .uk MCPS ISBN: 978 1408 427538 Classic Chandler The Big Sleep 4pp.indd 2 23/12/10 10:00:59 A BBC RADIO 4 RAYMOND CHANDLER FULL-CAST DRAMATISATION Raymond Chandler was born in Chicago in 1888 Marlowe went on to star in almost all Raymond R A Y M O N D but moved to England with his mother when Chandler’s major works and with Farewell My he was twelve after his parents’ divorce . He was Lovely (1940) and The Long Goodbye (1954) educated at Dulwich College, London and studied Chandler cemented his reputation as a giant international law in France and Germany . He of American popular culture and master of a published a number of poems and essays in local style of detective fi ction that would be widely papers and worked as a reporter, essayist and admired and imitated . book-reviewer before emigrating to the United Chandler turned to screenwriting in 1943 States in 1912 . After serving for the Canadian Army with Double Indemnity and worked closely with C H A N D L E R during the First World War he tried a variety of director Billy Wilder . He continued to write jobs before becoming a bookkeeper and auditor for Hollywood for the next four years, during for Dabney Oil Syndicate . In 1924 he married Pearl the heyday of the Hollywood studio system, Cecily Hurlburt . receiving an Oscar nomination for The Blue When Chandler lost his job during the Great Dahlia (1946) . Depression, he decided to devote himself to In 1946 Chandler received an Edgar Award from writing . He began writing short stories for Black R the Mystery Writers of America for screenplay FA EWELL Mask Magazine, the best known of the ‘hard- and in 1954 for novel writing . During the last boiled’ school of pulp fi ction magazines . In 1939 year of his life he was made President of the he published his fi rst novel The Big Sleep to instant Mystery Writers of America . 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He of American popular culture and master of a published a number of poems and essays in local style of detective fi ction that would be widely papers and worked as a reporter, essayist and admired and imitated . book-reviewer before emigrating to the United Chandler turned to screenwriting in 1943 States in 1912 . After serving for the Canadian Army with Double Indemnity and worked closely with C H A N D L E R during the First World War he tried a variety of director Billy Wilder . He continued to write jobs before becoming a bookkeeper and auditor for Hollywood for the next four years, during for Dabney Oil Syndicate . In 1924 he married Pearl the heyday of the Hollywood studio system, Cecily Hurlburt . receiving an Oscar nomination for The Blue When Chandler lost his job during the Great Dahlia (1946) . Depression, he decided to devote himself to In 1946 Chandler received an Edgar Award from writing . He began writing short stories for Black E the Mystery Writers of America for screenplay TH HIGH Mask Magazine, the best known of the ‘hard- and in 1954 for novel writing .