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David Baddiel on John Updike

Writer and comedian David Baddiel chooses the American novelist, John Updike. With Matthew Parris. From 2013.

Writer and comedian David Baddiel chooses the American novelist, John Updike. With Matthew Parris and Justin Cartwright.

His novels perfectly captured the shifting moral codes of middle America in the 1970s and 80s but do John Updike's novels still have something important to tell us today? The writer and comedian David Baddiel makes the case for Updike in conversation with Matthew Parris and the novelist and Updike expert, Justin Cartwright.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2014.

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30 minutes

Last on

Fri 29 Nov 201900:30

Credits

RoleContributor
PresenterMatthew Parris
Interviewed GuestDavid Baddiel
Interviewed GuestJustin Cartwright
ProducerMelvin Rickarby

Broadcasts

  • Tue 7 Jan 201416:30
  • Thu 28 Nov 201918:30
  • Fri 29 Nov 201900:30

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