Nick Hornby: Sunday, 25 October 2009, 10:15PM - 11:15PM

Melvyn Bragg talks to Nick Hornby about his latest novel, Juliet, Naked, and the release of the film, An Education, for which he wrote the screenplay.

The South Bank Show explores how Nick Hornby’s career as a writer has been influenced by, and reflected in film since his first football-inspired book, Fever Pitch, was published in 1992. Since then, he has written five best-selling novels, several of which adapted into feature films including High Fidelity and About a Boy.

Nick Hornby's new novel Juliet, Naked, is his first to be set outside north London and explores the nature of creativity and obsession, as Annie and Duncan’s failing relationship receives a visit from the legendary, if fictional US rock musician, Tucker Crowe.

Leo Burley's South Bank Show follows the author in the run-up to the publication of Juliet, Naked and explores the story behind the film An Education, which opens in London this week, and for which Hornby wrote the screenplay. He adapted it from a short memoir by journalist Lynn Barber about a teenage girl’s coming-of-age in London in the early 1960s.

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