Alan Bradley

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704 appearances 5 recordings 4 series first heard May 2026 last heard 12 Aug

Alan Bradley’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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She spent her time there immersing herself also into writers' communities.

And she won a big award.

Yeah, she won a Financial Times Bodley Essay Award, which is very, very prestigious international competition.

And she wrote about having Huntington's disease.

And I suppose what I found interesting was

She presented that as, you know, nonfiction, as a real thing, but it was fiction.

But it's still good writing and it still won the award.

And I think that's a really interesting thing about her.

She's an incredible storyteller.

And that's what she did with everybody.

She created these characters.

She created this backstory so rich and nuanced that it pulled the wall over institutions' eyes, over the media's eyes.

And, you know, if she put that to something good, she could have done something much better with her life.

So I think the Carrie Jade persona was her undoing because she got too big, I think, and perhaps too confident.

You have to bear in mind, she was getting away with this in Ireland for well over a decade at this point.

So I think she probably felt she was unstoppable.

She was putting herself out there on national media platforms.

She was on the radio.

She was trying to get RTE Doc on one to do a whole documentary about her.

She was everywhere.

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