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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Now, Slough House, it is the office from hell, a place for failed MI5 spies, and at its helm is Lamb.

He's got his dirty gaffer-taped socks up on the desk.

His paperwork is in the bin.

He's been wonderfully brought to life by a really repulsive Gary Oldman in the TV adaptation Slow Horses.

And today on the book show, I am so pleased to say that Mick Herron will join me, Claire Nicholls, to talk all things Jackson Lamb and Slough House.

It's a series that really should not have succeeded and it almost didn't.

I met Mick Keran on Whadjuk Noongar land in front of a big crowd in Perth.

Jackson Lamb, iconic and disgusting in equal measure.

Where did he come from?

Is there anything too gross for Jackson Lamb to do?

I mean, so yes, of course, Jackson Lamb, famously played by Gary Oldman in the series.

I asked where he came from.

You made the joke about your mum.

Do people ever think it might be a version of you?

What is his relationship with his Joes?

Does he actually care for these people?

You said you borrowed the term Joes from Le Carre.

I think you've also borrowed the name of the character, right?

Because there is a Jay Lamb in a Le Carre novel.

So let's go back and find out what it was that inspired you to write about spies.

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