Catherine Nixey

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366 appearances 5 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 16 Jul

Catherine Nixey’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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That's kind of what writing is.

And

Because writing looks like it's words on the page.

People think that the act of spewing words onto a page is writing.

But really the work, that's the final bit, that's what it looks like.

It's what goes on in your head.

And I like Julie Cooper because I like what goes on in her head, or what went on in her head.

She's just died.

Which is this wonderful world of, as as Josie said, heroes and villains who live in these fantastic Queen Anne houses in the Cotsworlds.

But I would strive

struggle to say even though I tried to write it in a piece, I would struggle to say it's great literature because of that.

There are heroes, there are villains.

I think the best books, if you contrast that to say Hilary Mantell's Will Fall,

Who is the hero?

Who is the villain?

Cromwell is the archetypal historical villain, and he's repurposed as our hero, but which is he?

We would not label ourselves as such, and if you can't see it in life and you see it in a book, it's probably somehow iffy.

Although I think aging badly can in itself be a virtue.

I mean, Alexandra's being very kind to Julie Cooper there.

I think she's aged terribly.

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