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Alan Carr on J.R Ackerley's memoir

Alan chooses J.R Ackerley鈥檚 memoir for Queer Icons, Front Row's celebration of LGBTQ culture. Extracts are read by Simon Russell Beale.

In My Father and Myself Ackerley is frank about his own sex life and the difficult relationship with his father.

J.R. Ackerley (1896-1967) was a British writer and editor of the 大象传媒鈥檚 The Listener magazine. He was openly homosexual and promoted authors such as W.H Auden and E.M.Forster.

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