Episode 3
In this self-survey, Michael Frayn considers his face. It’s cut on the slant. His nose runs. And runs and runs, longer than any of his plays. Longer even than The Mousetrap.
A five-part adaptation of Michael Frayn's new autobiography, Among Others.
Michael’s acquaintances haven’t always been other people. How has he got along with his own body over the years? He examines the person he’s known best and longest in his life. Himself.
In these forensic, often comic revelations he assesses himself not as a person, but as a physical object. A Mantower - looking down from a hundred floors up. Closest acquaintance of all, his own body, a companion on life's road at least as idiosyncratic and puzzling as everyone and everything around it. With his inimitable brand of humorous philosophy, Frayn comes to some surprising conclusions.
The reader, Martin Jarvis, is a long-term collaborator with Michael Frayn on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ programmes, including Magic Mobile, Pocket Playhouse, Matchbox Theatre, Speak After the Beep and Jarvis’s Frayn.
Author: Michael Frayn
Reader: Martin Jarvis
Music: A-Mnemonic
Director: Rosalind Ayres
A Jarvis & Ayres production for Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
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- Wed 3 May 2023 09:45Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 FM
- Thu 4 May 2023 00:30Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4