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Dame Sheila Hancock, viola player Rachel Stott and writer Geoff Dyer on endings.

Geoff Dyer, Dame Sheila Hancock and Rachel Stott join Matthew Sweet to discuss the work and performance of writers, artists, athletes and musicians near the end of their careers.

Dame Sheila Hancock, Geoff Dyer and Rachel Stott joined Matthew Sweet to discuss the work and performance of writers, artists, athletes and musicians near the end of their careers.

Old Rage by Sheila Hancock is out now in paperback and you can see her in the TV drama The Sixth Commandment available on BBC iPlayer
The Last Days of Roger Federer by Geoff Dyer is out now in paperback
Rachel Stott is a composer and plays viola with the Revolutionary Drawing Room, the Bach Players and Sopriola. 

Producer: Torquil MacLeod

On BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking programme website you can find a collection of programmes called The Way We Live Now exploring a range of topics from gloves, to hitchhiking, agoraphobia to Essex.

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