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Two people move into an empty room and begin to construct their life together. Should the bed go here and the table go there? Or the bed there and the table here? Everything inside this small space is for them to decide. The responsibility is daunting - especially when they reflect that it has taken the whole history of the world to get them together in this particular place at this particlular time; and that the whole future of the world will be different if the table is here instead of there. But how to decide anything, when the other person keeps disagreeing with you, and when the woman downstairs maddeningly dumps unwanted items of furniture on you that you haven't the heart to refuse...?
138 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1993
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Michael Frayn
113 books268 followersMichael Frayn is an English playwright and novelist. He is best known as the author of the farce Noises Off and the dramas Copenhagen and Democracy. His novels, such as Towards the End of the Morning, Headlong and Spies, have also been critical and commercial successes, making him one of the handful of writers in the English language to succeed in both drama and prose fiction. His works often raise philosophical questions in a humorous context. Frayn's wife is Claire Tomalin, the biographer and literary journalist.
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September 8, 2018
From BBC Radio 4 Extra:
Moving into their tiny new flat, a young couple need to make important decisions. Where will they put the bed? And do they really want to spend the rest of their lives together?
Michael Frayn's comedy drama stars Samuel West as Phil, Lucy Tregear as Cath and Margaret Courtenay as Pat.
Director: Matthew Walters
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1995.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00d...
Moving into their tiny new flat, a young couple need to make important decisions. Where will they put the bed? And do they really want to spend the rest of their lives together?
Michael Frayn's comedy drama stars Samuel West as Phil, Lucy Tregear as Cath and Margaret Courtenay as Pat.
Director: Matthew Walters
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1995.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00d...
March 6, 2014
Young couple Phil and Cath attempt to impose order on their tiny flat. Stars Samuel West, Lucy Tregear and Margaret Courtney.
You can listen too: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/...
NOT MUCH LATER: sheesh but this is appalling. Imagine paying to see something so awful.
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