Claire Nicholls
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2,363 appearances
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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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The Book Show · Mick Herron and the losers, misfits and boozers of Slow Horses · 19 Jul 2026
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And you and Joe have made a couple of little cameos on the series over the years.
And if you read Clowntown, there's a little hint at this in the book.
I'm just going to read this line I found.
This was London.
You could not move without becoming an extra, one of those stray characters exiting a Chinese restaurant or leaving a hotel and hailing a taxi until you became a star.
They are exactly your two cameos, are they not?
On ABC Radio National, you're listening to The Book Show.
I'm Claire Nicholls, very happy to be here with Mick Herron, the author of the best-selling Sloughhouse series, which has been adapted to the fabulous TV series Slow Horses.
I want to talk about a few other characters in the Sloughhouse world.
I want to mention Peter Judd, the disgraced former right-wing politician who
Too simple to say he's a version of Boris Johnson?
Yes.
So where did he come from then?
What about Diana Taverner?
First desk, total ice queen.
Is she a necessary evil?
I know you don't like the question about your favourite characters to write because you don't like to talk about your darlings, but I know you like to write Roddy Ho.
Very popular in the room.
What is it that is so fun about writing the tech wizard, no social skills, Roddy Ho?
He's got a vulnerability to him, I think.
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