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Michael Beard, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, finds that his fifth marriage is floundering. But this time it is different - she is having the affair.

Hugh Bonneville reads from Ian McEwan's new novel. Michael Beard is a Nobel Prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him, and now finds that his fifth marriage floundering. But this time it is different: she is having the affair, and he is still in love with her.

Abridged by Barry Johnston.

A Heavy Entertainment production for 大象传媒 Radio 4.

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Mon 15 Mar 2010 22:45

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