Radio: Getting along with getting on
Michael Rosen
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Rosen’s first guest is fellow octogenarian Sir Michael Palin, encountered at the Athenaeum – one of the few places, Palin confesses, where he feels ever-so-slightly juvenile.
FOR A MAN entering his ninth decade, who very nearly died during the first Covid wave, Michael Rosen sounds positively pixie-ish. As he acknowledges, near-death experiences make you reflective, and this new seven-part series turns on the question of what it means to be a man, in a society where gender roles lack some of the fixity they once possessed.
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