Rummidging around the career of David Lodge

In the latest in the series "Write around the Midlands" looking at famous authors living in that region, they meet David Lodge. The Emeritus Professor at Birmingham University, novelist, playwright, screenwriter and critic talks to Lindsay Doyle about his life, career, his struggles with going deaf and his fictitious city of Rummidge which is based on Birmingham.

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