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Bookclub

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In a special edition of the programme,
James Naughtie visits HMP Coldingley with writer Tony Parsons to discuss his hugely successful book
Man and Boy with the prisoners' readingcircle. The inmates discuss their reactions to this story of emotional loss and the ambiguous rites of passage from adolescence to manhood. On one level it is a love story - or rather, a story about love: the love of a man for his son, and for his own father; the love of a man for his wife at the end of their life together; and of a single father for a single mother at the beginning Of theirs. Repeated from Sunday 4pm

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James Naughtie
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Tony Parsons
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