Alan Hollinghurst: How has Britain changed since the 1980s?
The Interview8 Jan 2025

Alan Hollinghurst: How has Britain changed since the 1980s?

Stephen Sackur speaks to the British novelist Alan Hollinghurst, author of Our Evenings and the Booker Prize-winning The Line of Beauty. Over four decades, how has his writing and his view of Britain changed?

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