Among Others by Michael Frayn (Omnibus)

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 100 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.

Omnibus of five episodes written by Michael Frayn.

Read by Martin Jarvis.

Martin has long collaborated with Michael on BBC programmes, including Magic Mobile, Pocket Playhouse, Matchbox Theatre, Speak After the Beep and Jarvis’s Frayn.

Music: A-Mnemonic

Director: Rosalind Ayres

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