Gray Robert Brown

me i'm grey robert brown and i'm a writer i'm a christy fan i'm a westmer fan and this is episode four book four the rose and the yew tree yes a real change of rhythm this week for this book we are in torquay if you can hear noises behind us because we are the bustling seafront we are slightly dodging out of the wind although but it is a lovely sunny day it's

to come and see us in September there are a few still available there are so at the time of recording anyway so do go and snag a couple and come and see us yeah do and you're doing your own talk as well and I'm doing mine yes so there's three opportunities to get some sort of Westmer swinger energy goodness we hang around we're around we're very easy to get yeah

we're very excited about the book so we are we've just we've literally just announced it having sat on the secret finished it actually as well just finished it yeah more importantly yeah sorry yeah more importantly we've written it we do know what i was thinking was we've just uh publicly announced it having sat on the secret of his existence for almost a year no more than a year

It's more than a year since I wrote the pitch.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, very exciting.

So excited.

So yes, pre-order now.

Yes.

And today, not only are we doing The Rose and the Yew Tree, but this is a bit of a... I mean, they're all significant as entries to the Mary Westmore Bacot canon, but this one's particularly significant.

Stay tuned to find out how the secret of Mary Westmacott was finally uncovered very soon.

So in terms of context, we like to start with the context.

We love context.

Our story starts in 1948 this time.

I know, we're so used to, for the listener obviously over on Swinging Christies, we're so used to languishing in the 60s and specifically 59 to 71.

So any date that isn't that feels...

Because I called you and said, here's 17 projects I want to... Come play with me.

Here are 17 projects I want to do.

And you went, oh, fine.

Mark Gatiss was of the same mind you said well as in his Interest in Zero because that's when Bookish is set oh yes so it's funny that we and then we had this conversation saying about that well I don't think I've ever told you this but my first when I wanted to be a TV writer yeah I don't know how very long ago that was I sort of don't really watch much telly anymore apart from Great British Menu as we were talking about earlier but anyway when I wanted to be a TV writer the first proper TV script that I wrote was called Flicks