Douglas Stuart

Douglas Stuart | Young Mungo

Recorded: Thu 21 Apr 2022

Duration: 1 hour

Douglas Stuart | Young Mungo

Spring Festival 2022

Douglas Stuart talks to Alex Clark about Young Mungo. Juxtaposing aching tenderness with the brutality of toxic masculinity, Young Mungo tells the story of Mungo and James: two young men newly, rawly, dangerously in love.

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