Claire Nicholls
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2,363 appearances
20 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2020
last heard 13 Sep
Claire Nicholls’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Because that's not his actual name.
thousand dollar paintings you know i'd buy a painting from a guy called cricket uh but he he's very talented even as a child and he dreams of being this great i guess kind of classical artist and he has this beautiful naive belief that maybe someone from europe is just going to call him and he's going to be taken away to be an apprentice to a great master is that something you can sympathize with dave
He has this incredible friend.
Her name is Olympia.
She's a year or so older than him and I would say he is besotted with her from the moment he meets her.
Can you tell us about that very first interaction that Cricket and Olympia have?
Is that okay?
You can.
Go for it.
I love their dynamic.
I mean, Olympia is such a force.
I totally understand why cricket is besotted.
But I love the way that this friendship, despite all the things they will go through in their lives, it always remains pretty much the same as when they're about 10 years old.
What was it you wanted to explore about these friendships that we have over a lifetime?
Yeah.
Dave Eggers, in Contra Posto, our artist cricket has this kind of depressing habit of creating a piece of art, loving it before he goes to bed, waking up the next morning, looking at it again and going, what have I made?
It's awful.
I wanted to talk to you about that with this book, 20 years in the making, you make it.
Can you look at it now and be proud of what you have made?
But the novel, you can put the hard yards into that.
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