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The fourth featured location on the trail is the “turgid Trent” and the canals where Arthur Seaton would take in a bit of fishing to escape the noise of the factory and the gossiping neighbours.

The fourth featured location on the trail is the “turgid Trent” and the canals where Arthur Seaton would take in a bit of fishing to escape the noise of the factory and the gossiping neighbours. To explore whether solitude is still possible in a digital age we have commissioned two spoken-word performers.

duration: 103 secs

James Walker explores the history behind the spots where main character Arthur Seaton tried to gain a little solitude

This essay explores the fishing metaphor of being caught and applies it to Alan Sillitoe’s career as an emerging writer in 1958

Hear beatboxer and rapper, Alex ‘Motormouf’ Young, commissioned to encapsulate the fourth featured location on the Sillitoe trail, the “turgid Trent” and the solitude that the canals represented to Arthur Seaton

duration: 3 mins

This essay explores how writer Alan Sillitoe’s reluctant place in the media spotlight after the book’s publication echoes his character Arthur Seaton’s feeling that “everyone in the world was caught”

Introducing a virtual tour of writer Alan Sillitoe's Nottingham