10: Well, you've got to laugh
John Self learns some hard truths, about fathers and sons, the fate of his movie - and money, as Bertie Carvel reads the final part of Martin Amis's greatest novel.
Bertie Carvel continues Martin Amis's electrifying, and savagely funny novel of 1980s excess, featuring the self-destructive anti-hero John Self.
John Self is a consumer extraordinaire.
Rolling between London and New York he closes movie deals and spends feverishly, all the while grabbing everything he can to sate his massive appetites: alcohol, tobacco, pills, pornography and mountains of junk food.
But John鈥檚 excesses haven鈥檛 gone unnoted. Menaced by a phone stalker, his dangerously excessive lifestyle is about to bring him face-to-face with the secret of his success.
Today: John Self learns some hard truth - about fathers and sons, his ill-fated movie, life and money...
Writer: Martin Amis
Reader: Bertie Carvel
Abridger: Katrin Williams
Producer: Justine Willett
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