In _The Unfinished Harauld Hughes_, Ayoade chronicles his dogged quest to rescue Harauld Hughes – the great mid-century playwright – from obscurity. He first chanced upon a copy of _The Two-Hander Trilogy_ by Harauld Hughes in a second-hand bookshop. At first startled by his uncanny resemblance to the author's photo, he opened the volume and was electrified. Terse, aggressive, and elliptical, what was true of Ayoade was also true of Hughes's writing, which encompassed stage, screen, and some of the shortest poems ever published. In this event of lookalike and literary excavations, Richard Ayoade returns to the Royal Festival Hall to accomplish the quest, diving deep into the world of Harauld Hughes in conversation with Joe Dunthorne. Joe Dunthorne is a novelist and poet. His debut novel, _Submarine_, was adapted for film and his second, _Wild Abandon_, won the Royal Society of Literature’s Encore Award. His poetry collection, _O Positive_, was published in 2019 by Faber & Faber. He lives in London.