![]() ![]() Mr Chipping's initial shyness and sternness is conquered when he meets and marries a young woman he meets on holiday. ![]() Chips was first published in 1934 and tells the story of a much-beloved schoolteacher, through the long years of his tenure at the boys' school where he once taught. As a screenwriter he contributed to the war-time classic Mrs Miniver (also featuring Greer Garson, who starred as Katherine in the first film version of Goodbye, Mr Chips). His novels include Goodbye Mr Chips, Random Harvest and Lost Horizon (which won a Hawthornden Prize) - all made into feature films. He found literary success at an early age, his first novel, Catherine Herself, having been published in 1920. Novelist and screenwriter James Hilton was born in Leigh in Lancashire in 1900 and died in Long Beach, California in 1954. Evocative and touching, “Goodbye, Mr Chips” is a timeless story that will bring a tear to everyone’s eye. This new abridged version, by renowned abridger Neville Teller, keeps true to the original work, rather than the famous 1939 MGM movie. A moving and emotional story, spanning a lifetime and filled with many colourful and recognisable characters. Over the five instalments we follow Mr Chips' life as he remembers it in flashback from the comfort and serenity of retirement at Mrs. Sir Derek Jacobi reads James Hilton’s 1934 classic novel “Goodbye, Mr Chips”, in this newly abridged five part version. Originally broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in 2005 ![]()
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