Michael Frayn on a life in writing, Nov 22

"Michael Frayn confronts the biggest philosophical and scientific questions in The Human Touch, a book that mixes the popular with the profound, in his own inimitable style. What would the universe be like if we were not here to talk about it? And would it seem so vast without our own smallness to give it scale? Would there be scientific laws, if there were no words or numbers in which to express them?

Frayn discusses these questions with John Carey, one of Britain's most insightful critics. John Carey edited the Faber Book of Science and has written on a vast range of subjects, most recently the polemic What Good Are The Arts?""

Wednesday 22 November 2006, 7:45 pm in the Purcell Room at the South Bank Centre. £8.50
http://www.rfh.org.uk/main/events/132396.html