Andy Miller

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Our very own suburban house where we three set fires, gaze at the garden and eat cake while regaling one another with tales drawn from the books, films and music we've enjoyed in the previous fortnight.

She sent a little note to William Maxwell.

She said, dear William, it is all a fairy tale.

Best love, Maeve.

And then she says, these are our lives, lives in italics.

I can't get over it.

These are our lives.

Hello, it's Andy.

Welcome to Backlisted, one of our rerun episodes from our archive.

This time it's De Profundis by Oscar Wilde with our guest Stephen Fry.

Yeah, he is Sir Stephen Fry.

I'm not sure whether he was Sir Stephen Fry when we recorded this.

Yeah, that's right.

I remember.

This is one of my favourite episodes from our Batlist because it's about one of my favourite books, not just from our Batlist, but from my reading of the last however many years.

And...

It was one of those occasions, Nicky, where it felt like a privilege to have the opportunity to discuss one of my favourite pieces of writing with somebody so expert and invested in the subject of Oscar Wilde and of De Profundis.