Michael Frayn

He wasn't particularly interested in it.

The first thing I can remember of mine that I liked was a television play.

And he phoned up and said...

I knew all those characters.

I knew them all.

You ought to do more things like this.

And then he read one of the first pieces of serious journalism I went back to after I'd been writing novels for years, which was a series about Cuba.

And he rang and said, but that was very good.

We want to do a bit more work like this.

And I didn't like to tell him about what I'd been doing for that.

Thank you very much for coming and talking to me.