<p>Peter shares a memory of his first love with another boy at boarding school, set to Handel. And we chat: about gay love in antiquity; Halloween as a holiday of masks and love; and John LeCarre's final, radical masterpiece, Silverview. More primo autumn listening, all cups runneth over.&nbsp;</p>

Cheese and Chat No. 8: Love and Marriage

Peter Foges is a film and television producer. He worked for the BBC in London for fifteen years as a correspondent, an anchor, a producer, and a director before moving to the United States to serve as BBC TV's bureau chief. He sits on the Editorial Board of Lapham's Quarterly. 

Dana Vachon is a novelist and screenwriter. He is the co-author, with Jim Carrey, of the novel Memoirs and Misinformation, and the author of the novel Mergers and Acquisitions. His essays and journalism have appeared in The New York Times, New York Magazine, and Vanity Fair. 

Together they eat cheese. And chat.