<I>Immortality Auction</I>

NPR

Published December 3, 2000 at 12:00 AM EST

Always wanted to be a character in a novel? Here's your chance. This week, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts is holding an Immortality Auction, in which the highest bidders will buy their way into novels by some of England's top writers. It's all to raise money for a London-based charity. Liane talks with Jon Baguley, who directs fundraising for the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture. (4:00) (NOTE: for more information on the auction and participating authors, visit http://www.bo

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