The Mark and the Void 

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Peter Serafinowicz

Paul Murray

Sara Davies

Jenny Thompson

Paul Murray - The Mark and the Void: Episode 8

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Episode 8

Paul Murray - The Mark and the Void

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Claude tries to get over Ariadne but Paul pretends they are lovers to get a dinner invite.

Claude tries to get over Ariadne, but Paul pretends they are lovers to get a dinner invite. Read by Peter Serafinowicz.

Paul tries to interest Claude in his waitress surveillance business when he meets his former editor who mistakes Claude for Paul's lover. 

But who knows where the charade will lead?

Paul Murray’s madcap novel of institutional folly - a stirring examination of the deceptions carried out in the names of art, love and commerce.

Read by Peter Serafinowicz.

Abridged by Sara Davies.

Producer: Jenny Thompson.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2015.

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Paul Murray's madcap novel of institutional folly. Read by Peter Serafinowicz.

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