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04/04/2011

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Clare English talks to writer Michael Frayn about his memoir My Father's Fortune.

Michael Frayn discusses his memoir My Father's Fortune - A Life in a session with Clare English, recorded at Glasgow's Aye Write Festival.

"Father and son were in some ways ridiculously alike, in others ridiculously different."  Michael Frayn discusses his moving memoir 'My Father's Fortune - A Life' with Clare English, in a session recorded at this year's Aye Write Festival at the Glasgow's Mitchell Library.  The writer, whose novels such as Spies and Headlong and plays such as Noises Off, Copenhagen and Democracy, has won many awards.  In this latest work, he delves into his own family background to discover more about the asbestos sales rep who was his father.

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