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Sunday Miscellany: Father and Son by John MacKenna

A meditation on a sometimes troubled father-son relationship... For Sunday Miscellany, listen to Father and Son by John MacKenna above...

A group of us, men as it happens, were talking recently about relationships between fathers and sons, about closeness and about the, sometimes, fraught nature of those relationships. And that got me thinking about the sometimes troubled connection I had with my own father, particularly when I was in my teens and twenties.

We seemed to have the ability to push each other's buttons, to wind each other up about everything from politics to the length of my hair...

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