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Playwright and novelist Michael Frayn's revelatory autobiography.

Michael鈥檚 acquaintances haven鈥檛 always been other people. How has he got along with his own body over the years? He examines the person he鈥檚 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 麻豆社 programmes, including Magic Mobile, Pocket Playhouse, Matchbox Theatre, Speak After the Beep and Jarvis鈥檚 Frayn.

Omnibus of five episodes written by Michael Frayn.

Music: A-Mnemonic

Director: Rosalind Ayres

A Jarvis & Ayres production for 麻豆社 Radio 4, first broadcast in May 2023.