Any Human Heart

Series 1 Episode 1
First Broadcast: Sun 21 November 2010

Logan Mountstuart is a student at Oxford in the 1920s, aspiring to become a great novelist but even more desperate to lose his virginity.

Seemingly trapped by a promise to his dying father to join the family corned beef company, a chance encounter with Ernest Hemingway re-ignites his literary passion.

But when true love really does hit him, how will Logan cope when faced with the fact that life is random and uncontrollable?

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