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This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas as joined by Keith Hopper, a critic of film and literature, to revisit the film \\u2018Midnight Cowboy\\u2019 (1969), a \'dark, difficult masterpiece\' starring Jon Voight as an aspirant sex worker and Dustin Hoffman as his friend, an ailing con man; before it\\u2019s available in English, the journalist Henri Astier delves into the \'secret\' diary of Michel Barnier, the European Union\\u2019s Brexit negotiator, who the British tabloids named \'the most dangerous man in Europe\'; plus, what does Brexit mean for books?

\\u2018Shooting Midnight Cowboy: Art, sex, loneliness, liberation, and the making of a dark classic\\u2019 by Glenn Frankel

\\u2018La Grande Illusion: Journal secret du Brexit (2016-2020)\\u2019 by Michel Barnier

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