Bernard Cornwell
speaker
244 appearances
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first heard Dec 2025
last heard 20 Dec
Bernard Cornwell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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There's one of my ancestors buried in York Minster.
Really?
Yes, he was, I think, a royal chaplain.
That gene didn't come down very far.
Another one invented the slide rule.
And he was a professor of mathematics at Cambridge.
And I'm particularly proud of this.
He died of joy.
when he heard of the restoration of King Charles II.
Wow.
I just think he just celebrated so hard he had a heart attack.
He invented the slide rule, and that's another gene that didn't come down to me, but there you go.
I was, very much so, and loved historical fiction.
And I've long believed since I began to write that when you write, you write for yourself.
You write the books you want to read.
And if you're lucky, an agent and a publisher will also like them.
And if you're really lucky, customers will like them too.
But I mean, to this day, I write books I want to read, which is probably something I shouldn't ever admit considering what the books are.
But there you go.
what did you start reading historical fiction so i mean george mcdonald fraser oh yeah well he came a bit later right and i mean i love flashman and i met george many times i treasure some notes he sent me one of which reads something like after the age of 80 a man thinks twice before committing murder yours i george so i frame that have it over the desk
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