Episode 1
Michael Beard, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, finds that his fifth marriage is floundering. But this time it is different - she is having the affair.
Hugh Bonneville reads from Ian McEwan's new novel. Michael Beard is a Nobel Prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him, and now finds that his fifth marriage floundering. But this time it is different: she is having the affair, and he is still in love with her.
Abridged by Barry Johnston.
A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4.
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- Mon 15 Mar 201022:45BBC Radio 4
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