Alice Feeney
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194 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jan 2025
Alice Feeney’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's always very noisy up here. There's all these voices all the time. I wish they'd shush. And unfortunately, a lot of one of my good ideas tend to happen at 3 a.m. in the morning. And we've established I'm not great at technology. So I sometimes forget how to make the phone go into silent. So my poor husband at 3 a.m. will just hear tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap.
Because sometimes, you know, you think you might forget the idea if you don't write it down. So I tend to put it all together in pieces like that. Then I have a giant board, giant board.
white board i i think because i'm so old-fashioned and not down with the kids at all for years i did everything on an actual giant cardboard board which would have tiny little bits of different colored card stuck to it with blue tack do you have blue tack in america it's like it's like chewing gum oh but it's but it's for sticking things i don't know that we call it that i'm not sure but i remember i used to um
So I did it like a child, basically, putting together a sticky board. And then one year my husband said, this is ridiculous. You're actually like a professional author now. I think we need to up your game. So I have the same thing, but it's a whiteboard with magnets and still the same different coloured cards, but it looks slightly better, I suppose.
It doesn't look like my nine-year-old niece's artwork project.
Exactly. I think I need to see the whole book in one place. So I need to see all the chapters, all the characters, and just see it all together. And then once I've got the board, I even call it board day. It's like a special day because it's like me committing to writing the book. I've never done the board and then not written the book. So that's when I'm sure... It's a book.
It's something I want to write, something I want to commit at least a year of my life to. And then I have all these strange little traditions. So after board day, I'm telling you, Fatima, it's because it feels like we're just having a nice, fun chat. I forget that anyone else is going to hear all my madness later on.
You need to have a board day. And then I normally treat myself to a very nice bottle of champagne and I write the book number and the date and I put it in the fridge straight after board day. And then I'm not allowed to drink the champagne until my agent has read the book once I finished it and says it's good.
So for the following year, I will open the fridge several times a day and see the champagne and think, not yet, not yet. So it's so special when I get the phone call from my agent to say, I've read it. It's good. You've done it. Well done. And you can drink it. Then I drink the champagne and then we start all over again. I love that. And sooner or later, there's another board day. I love that.
isn't my life fun no i actually love it because i'm like this is and you have like the writing shed i love that yeah i think everyone has their little quirks and i have the um the jar of lucky kit kats on my desk as well so if if it's a slow writing day if it's taking me a
And I always, I always, whenever I come to America, I remember that here you have six finger Kit Kats because at home there's only two finger Kit Kats.
You know, the ones here would not fit in my special lucky Kit Kat jar. But I always wonder if I lived in America with the giant Kit Kats, I could probably write two books a year. Yeah. I'd probably speed up.
I'm sure there is a jar out there that we could use to accommodate this.
You have such different confectionery.
here it always amazes me and on the on the film set for his and hers they had this this area every every day wherever we were whether we were on set or it has called crafty with all these different amazing snacks just everything everything you could so jessica chastain is producing the show and she was rather partial to something i'd never heard of before which was a lollipop with bubble gum in the middle you don't have that no i've never heard of such a thing and
That's what she called it. That's what it was. Because when she first said it, it sounded a little bit rude, if I'm honest. I didn't know what was going on. You know, if someone says they want one of those, I just think, crikey, I thought we were here to film a show. But no, so she was explaining to me that that's what they are and it's a thing. She loved these things.
And I don't know what my face did. I think my face sometimes does things I don't know it's doing. And she understood that I wasn't that impressed with this particular lollipop with bubble gum in the middle. And she said, what's wrong with that? And I said, well, it should either be a lollipop or it should be bubble gum.
And I told her the story of the time I nearly divorced my husband, who I've been with for 20 years because of a Yorkie bar. Do you have Yorkie bars here? Yeah. No, no, see, this is the problem. You have all these different things and we have different things at home, but at home we have this thing called a Yorkie bar.
And when I was a child, the advert, the TV advert for it said, these are not for girls, which again, when someone says, I can't do something, I can't have it, I wanted it. So I always wanted the Yorkie bar. But then they messed it up by having a special version which had raisins inside it. You know, and I think chocolate should be chocolate.
Raisins, I've got no problem with them, but they should just be raisins. And I felt really sad that first day I met Jessica Chastain that instead of having a deep and meaningful conversation with her, I spent most of it talking about raisins and chocolate and lollipops and bubblegum bits in the middle. But we got to know each other the next day on set a bit better.
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