Elizabeth Day
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377 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 25 Jun
Elizabeth Day’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And so they think that's what a leader looks like too.
They think they're destined for that.
And that's put our politics in a really dangerous position.
Yeah.
I mean, obviously, they're all entirely fictional.
Entirely.
Entirely fictional.
i was definitely well i was inspired okay so i was inspired by something margaret atwood said to me so she came on how to fail she's obviously a terrific writer wrote handmade's tale and handmade's tale is this dystopian novel about a terrible future she said but in the handmaid's tale i didn't write anything that wasn't already happening or hadn't already happened in the world around us
And so that was the bar that I set for myself for One of Us.
So everything in One of Us, as ludicrous, satirical as it might feel, has happened.
And there is one particular character called Richard Take, who I had a lot of fun writing, who is an entirely self-aware, un-self-aware Tory politician.
He's just lost his front bench seat because he's been caught watching porn on his work computer.
Has that actually happened?
Yes, it has.
And... Tractor porn.
Tractor porn.
Tractor porn.
Yeah.
Yeah.
What?
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