"We Were Elsewhere People”

André Aciman is The New York Times bestselling author of Call Me By Your Name, Out of Egypt, Eight White Nights, False Papers, Alibis, Harvard Square and Enigma Variations. His latest book is the memoir My Roman Year. He is the editor of The Proust Project and teaches comparative literature at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

Richard Buckham worked for many years at the ABC, starting as a radio producer in the early 1980s. He spent a year in London with the BBC in 1989. After working in theatre and opera in the 90s, he returned to the ABC where he was arts editor at Radio National, manager of ABC Classic for nine years, and head of Arts until 2020.