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Episode 6

It is now 1996, and Emma and Dexter are not speaking. As her teaching career surges ahead, his TV career falters. Read by Julian Rhind-Tutt.

Julian Rhind-Tutt reads from the bittersweet novel by David Nicholls.

It is now 1996 and the two friends have not spoken to each other since a painfully acrimonious evening the previous summer when Emma found herself admitting that she no longer liked Dexter very much. In the meantime her teaching career is surging ahead while Dexter is being edged into the graveyard slots of TV presenting.

A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4.

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