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World Service,20 May 1997,28 mins

Edmund White's The Farewell Symphony

Meridian

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A review of Edmund White's The Farewell Symphony. Also in the programme, a mathematical theorem gets Professor Andrew Wilds very emotional; Fermat's last theorem, the problem he solved in 1995. Plus Harry Mullish talks about God and angels and as Eric Cantona hangs up his football boots; we'll be looking at the tongue-in-cheek book Meaning of Cantona.

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