Among Others by Michael Frayn (Omnibus)
In his forensic autobiography, writer Michael Frayn makes often comic discoveries about himself. Read by Martin Jarvis.
Playwright and novelist Michael Frayn's revelatory autobiography.
Michael’s acquaintances haven’t always been other people. How has he got along with his own body over the years? He examines the person he’s known best and longest in his life. Himself.
In these forensic, often comic revelations he assesses himself not as a person, but as a physical object. A Mantower - looking down from a hundred floors up. Closest acquaintance of all, his own body, a companion on life's road at least as idiosyncratic and puzzling as everyone and everything around it. With his inimitable brand of humorous philosophy, Frayn comes to some surprising conclusions.
The reader, Martin Jarvis, is a long-term collaborator with Michael Frayn on BBC programmes, including Magic Mobile, Pocket Playhouse, Matchbox Theatre, Speak After the Beep and Jarvis’s Frayn.
Omnibus of five episodes written by Michael Frayn.
Music: A-Mnemonic
Director: Rosalind Ayres
A Jarvis & Ayres production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in May 2023.
On radio
Broadcasts
- Sat 6 Jun 202607:30BBC Radio 4 Extra
- Sat 6 Jun 202612:30BBC Radio 4 Extra
- Sat 6 Jun 202618:30BBC Radio 4 Extra
- Sun 7 Jun 202602:30BBC Radio 4 Extra
