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Playwright Michael Frayn on the joys and perils of technology

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My guest for this week’s Book Club podcast is the great Michael Frayn, talking about his new book of sketches Magic Mobile, lockdown life, the joys and perils of technology, adapting Spies for the screen – and how his muse has changed as he gets older.

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