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Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby: Episode 3

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Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby, Episode 3

Arsenal-obsessed memoir, musing on girls' rooms, boys' passions - and Liam Brady.

In his Arsenal-obsessed memoir, Nick Hornby muses on girls' rooms, boys' passions - and Liam Brady.

Nick Hornby reads his Arsenal-obsessed memoir, musing on girls' rooms, boys' passions - and Liam Brady.

It's 1977: the author is at Cambridge University, watching Arsenal play Cambridge United.

He's also deeply in love with a trainee teacher - the first girlfriend he ever took to a football match at London's Highbury Stadium. 

She found the experience "funny"!

Producer:  Matthew Walters.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1993.

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