Michael Frayn
Wednesday 20 September 2006 21:30-22:15 (Radio 3)
Philip Dodd talks to playwright, author and former philosophy student Michael Frayn, who discusses his new book The Human Touch - Our Part in a Creation of a Universe.
Michael Frayn
Michael Frayn
By Jennifer McRae
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On Night Waves tonight Philip Dodd talks in an extended interview with writer Michael Frayn about his life, his new book and the West End show that made him cry from beginning to end.
Famous for such contrasting plays as the farce Noises Off and the drama centred around the world of nuclear physics, Copenhagen, as well as critically acclaimed novels Spies and Headlong, Frayn's new book, The Human Touch, is a departure.
He uses the book to explore, in non-fiction, questions that have underscored most of his fictional work - the relationship between existence and human consciousness.
He describes how Frayn the writer is related to Frayn the dreamer and how the two have helped him gain insight into the larger philosophical questions he is now confronting.
