8 May 2025

The Reread with Victor Rodger

From Nights, 9:35 pm on 8 May 2025

Once a month, we challenge a member of New Zealand's literary community to go back and re-read a book they read long ago that had a real impact on them, to see what has changed.

Tonight, we are joined in our Wellington studio by playwright Victor Rodger, who has reread Alan Hollinghurst's 2004 Booker Prize-winning novel The Line of Beauty ahead of interviewing Alan at the upcoming Auckland Writer's Festival.

Victor smiles at the camera. He is wearing a navy blazer over a black top.

Playwright Victor Rodger is interviewing British novelist Alan Hollinghurst as part of the Auckland Writer's Festival in May 2025. Photo: Deborah Marshall