Jan Carson
speaker
829 appearances
3 recordings
3 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 14 May
Jan Carson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It was great.
Yeah.
And I met so many artists there and that's where I properly started to write just because it was such a culture of creativity.
Yeah, I guess it kind of goes backwards and forwards, Roisin.
If I'm at home, that's my schedule.
So I'll be very honest and say it's about six weeks since the book came out and I've done deadly squat.
It's half past ten, I'm still in my pyjamas.
Very colourful pyjamas.
I've put on a decent top over the top.
Oh yeah, you're just hiding underneath your pyjamas.
I think you just have to be realistic about kind of the pressures that are on writers nowadays.
Like so much is expected of us in terms of promotion and outward, you know, events and meeting the writers and things and all of that.
I really enjoy because I'm quite social, but it doesn't bode well with the actually creating art.
So I've become a horrible writer who goes off on residencies and tries to
Get manuscripts written really quickly so she can edit while she's on the road.
I'm adapting to Agatha Christie for Radio 4 at the minute, so I'm deep into her diaries and you will want to kick her when you hear this.
So she wrote and also wrote Under the Name Mary Met Westmacott, which was her kind of non-crime material.
She wrote one of those in three days.
And it's really good.
I've been writing for a long time and the literary fiction, I've been writing for over 20 years now.
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