Ben Pester

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327 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 4 Jul

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London Review Bookshop Podcast · Claire-Louise Bennett & Ben Pester: Magic & Mechanics · 4 Jul 2026 podcast

So, yeah, I do think, oh, that bit's funny.

They'll laugh at that.

And if I know who is going to read it first, then... And even if it's like, oh, at some point this person will read it and it will make them laugh.

And sometimes...

Sometimes I've written something that will only make one or two people laugh because it's a massive in-joke and that goes in anyway.

I do that a lot.

Some stuff.

It turns into something else.

I think those things are important.

That's part of who I am.

A joke that I share with only two or three people is...

God, it's a delicious thing to have that like feeling of laughing at something that nobody else would find funny or understand, not in a mean way, but just like that belongs only to you and to those people and something of that going into the work is fine, I think.

So yeah, so in those terms, but not in a kind of a grand kind of like plotting way or anything like that.

Is it too Stanislavskian?

Well, thinking about the audience and how they'll receive the emotional... Kind of.

Nearly.

Well, no, I think it's close to that.

It's something else.

I'm just always aware of how much of a physical act it is.

I know it sounds stupid, but it is...

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