Editing Philip Larkin (section)

===Fiction based on Larkin's life===
In 1999, [[Oliver Ford Davies]] starred in Ben Brown's play ''Larkin With Women'' at the [[Stephen Joseph Theatre]], Scarborough, reprising his role at the [[Orange Tree Theatre]], London, in 2006. The play was published by Larkin's usual publishers, [[Faber and Faber]]. Set in the three decades after Larkin's arrival in Hull, it explores his long relationships with [[Relationships that influenced Philip Larkin#Monica Jones|Monica Jones]], Maeve Brennan and Betty Mackereth.<ref>{{cite news
 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/1999/nov/13/theatre1
 |title=Life limited by love – Larkin with Women
 |last=Billington
 |first=Michael
 |date=13 November 1999
|work=The Guardian
 |publisher=Guardian News and Media Limited
 |access-date=12 November 2009
|location=London
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140508024625/http://www.theguardian.com/stage/1999/nov/13/theatre1
 |archive-date=8 May 2014
|url-status=live
 }}</ref> Another Larkin-inspired entertainment, devised by and starring Sir [[Tom Courtenay]], was given a pre-production performance in June 2002 at Hull University's Middleton Hall.<ref>István D. Rácz. "Larkin in Context: The Second International Conference on the Work of Philip Larkin" ''About Larkin''  No. 14 October 2002 p.24</ref> Courtenay performed his one-man play ''Pretending to Be Me'' as part of the Second Hull International Conference on the Work of Philip Larkin. 

In November that year, Courtenay debuted the play at the [[West Yorkshire Playhouse]],<ref>{{cite news
 |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/2146504.stm
 |work=BBC News
 |title=Courtenay pens Larkin tribute
 |date=23 July 2002
|access-date=9 August 2010
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040614021853/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/2146504.stm
 |archive-date=14 June 2004
|url-status=live
 }}</ref> later transferring the production to the [[Comedy Theatre]] in London's West End.<ref>{{cite news
|last=Spencer
|first=Charles
|date=20 February 2003
|title=Great acting, great jokes – and the peerless poetry of Philip Larkin
|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/drama/3590158/Great-acting-great-jokes-and-the-peerless-poetry-of-Philip-Larkin.html
|access-date=22 February 2016
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160229080804/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/drama/3590158/Great-acting-great-jokes-and-the-peerless-poetry-of-Philip-Larkin.html
|archive-date=29 February 2016
|url-status=live
}}</ref><ref>{{cite news 
|last=Billington 
|first=Michael 
|date=19 February 2003 |title=Pretending To Be Me 
|url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2003/feb/19/theatre.artsfeatures5 
|newspaper=The Guardian 
|access-date=22 February 2016
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303062601/http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2003/feb/19/theatre.artsfeatures5 
|archive-date=3 March 2016
|url-status=live 
}}</ref>  An audio recording of the play, which is based on Larkin's letters, interviews, diaries and verse, was released in 2005.<ref>{{cite book|url=http://www.lrbshop.co.uk/product.php?productid=1100&cat=48&page=3 |title=Pretending to be Me: Philip Larkin, a Portrait |author=Tom Courtenay |publisher=Time Warner (Audio books) |isbn=978-1-4055-0082-1 |year=2005 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928142806/http://www.lrbshop.co.uk/product.php?productid=1100&cat=48&page=3 |archive-date=28 September 2007 }}
</ref>  In June 2010, Courtenay returned to the University of Hull to give a performance of a newly revised version of ''Pretending to Be Me'' called ''Larkin Revisited'' in aid of the Larkin statue appeal as part of the Larkin 25 festival.<ref>{{cite web
 |url=http://www.digyorkshire.com/EventListing.aspx?Event=54932
 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130102082034/http://www.digyorkshire.com/EventListing.aspx?Event=54932
 |url-status=usurped
 |archive-date=2 January 2013
|title=Larkin Revisited – Tom Courtenay
 |work=Dig Yorkshire
 |publisher=Audiences Yorkshire
 |access-date=14 July 2010
}}</ref>

In July 2003, [[BBC Two]] broadcast a play entitled ''Love Again''—its title also that of one of Larkin's most painfully personal poems—dealing with the last thirty years of Larkin's life (though not shot anywhere near Hull). The lead role was played by [[Hugh Bonneville]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2003/01_january/24/love_again.shtml |title=Hugh Bonneville plays poet Philip Larkin in the BBC TWO film Love Again |date=19 March 2003 |publisher=BBC |access-date=27 October 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100116111323/http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2003/1_january/24/love_again.shtml |archive-date=16 January 2010 }}</ref> and in the same year [[Channel 4]] broadcast the documentary ''Philip Larkin, Love and Death in Hull''.<ref>{{cite news
|last=Banks-Smith
|first=Nancy
|date=7 July 2003
|title=What not to swear (Last night's TV)
|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2003/jul/07/television.artsfeatures
|newspaper=The Guardian
|access-date=22 February 2016
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303061422/http://www.theguardian.com/media/2003/jul/07/television.artsfeatures
|archive-date=3 March 2016
|url-status=live
}}</ref>

In April 2008, BBC Radio 4 broadcast a play by Chris Harrald entitled ''[[Mr Larkin's Awkward Day]]'', recounting the [[practical joke]] played on him in 1957 by his friend Robert Conquest, a fellow poet.<ref>{{cite news
 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2008/apr/29/radio
 |title=Mr Larkin's Awkward Day
 |publisher=Guardian News and Media Limited
 |work=The Guardian
 |date=29 April 2008
|access-date=27 October 2009
|location=London
 |first=Phil
 |last=Daoust
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140219001343/http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2008/apr/29/radio
 |archive-date=19 February 2014
|url-status=live
 }}</ref>