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Radio 3,04 Oct 2017,45 mins

Alan Hollinghurst

Free Thinking

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Alan Hollinghurst talks to Anne McElvoy and a Proms Extra audience about his new novel The Sparsholt Affair, which traces a family and changing attitudes to sexuality across generations. It's the sixth novel from the author whose Booker Prize winning The Line of Beauty was dramatised for TV and who began his literary career with The Swimming Pool Library published in 1988. Recorded last month as a Proms Extra event with an audience at Imperial College. Producer: Zahid Warley.

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