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Night Waves: 27/04/2011

27/04/2011

BBC Radio 3 - Night Waves, 27/04/2011

Philip Dodd interviews the novelist Edward St Aubyn.

Philip Dodd interviews the writer Edward St Aubyn about his new book At Last, the culmination of a series of semi-autobiographical novels based around the character Patrick Melrose.

Philip Dodd talks to novelist Edward St Aubyn, author of the Booker nominated Mother's Milk. 

St Aubyn's semi-autobiographical books centre on the saga of the Melroses, a family suffocated by the presence of a sadistic father and a disillusioned mother. His alter ego, Patrick Melrose, has just come to the end of his fictional journey with the publication of the final chapter in the series, At Last. 

As the RSC opens its new theatre in Stratford, Philip is joined by Night Waves’ regular critic Susannah Clapp to review its inaugural show  - Macbeth, directed by Michael Boyd.

Journalist John Lloyd joins Philip to review Christian Carion's spy thriller Farewell, based on the true story of the KGB double-agent Vladimir Vetrov.  

And why are the British so obsessed with the sex lives of celebrities? Following the latest news about super injunctions, columnist Deborah Orr, publicist Max Clifford and journalist Roy Greenslade discuss the issue.

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