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Front Row: Front Row reviews Hamnet at the RSC and TV drama Obsession; Michael Frayn on his memoir

Front Row reviews Hamnet at the RSC and TV drama Obsession; Michael Frayn on his memoir

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Front Row reviews Hamnet at the RSC and TV drama Obsession; Michael Frayn on his memoir

Reviews of the RSC's Hamnet and TV drama Obsession; Michael Frayn's memoir Among Others

Reviews of Hamnet at the RSC, based on the bestselling novel by Maggie O'Farrell and the TV drama Obsession, based on Josephine Hart's novella Damage; Michael Frayn on his memoir

The RSC's production of Hamnet brings the bestselling, award-winning novel by Maggie O'Farrell to the stage. To review this reinterpretation of O'Farrell's imagined account of the short life of Shakespeare's son, which also foregrounds his wife Agnes, Tom Sutcliffe is joined by theatre critic Susannah Clapp and the novelist and screenwriter Louise Doughty. 

Michael Frayn is the author of almost 50 works, including the farce Noises Off, the novel Spies, and translations of Chekhov’s plays. In his ninetieth year, Frayn talks to Tom Sutcliffe about Among Others: Friendships and Encounters, a memoir less about him than the people who shaped him.

Our critics Susannah Clapp and Louise Doughty also review the new Netflix drama Obsession, a tale of erotic obsession, based on the late Josephine Hart's 1991 novella Damage.

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Producer: Paul Waters

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