Jan Carson
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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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So there's a chain of people with buckets.
And I actually talked to a journalist a few days ago that was like, of course, the bucket men were real, weren't they?
No, I made that up.
So it's lovely to play with the readers and to see how far you can stretch their imaginations too.
I think there's that, Matt, because there are so many aspects of, you know, the group of people who are still on the island are fearful about being accepted when they move back.
And there's a great sense of them being reassured.
No, things have changed.
It's more tolerant.
It's more open minded.
But there are so many issues highlighted by the book that really haven't changed yet.
A lot of it is about our ongoing interest in burying trauma and not dealing with it.
You can submerge things in an island that eats stuff you don't want to observe too closely.
You can lift the floodgates and try and wash the algae away and deal with the surface, but not the actual root cause of the problem.
And sadly, that is something that we continue to do in the north.
We're very...
very reluctant sometimes to get to the actual heart of where these issues and problems are coming from.
It's a lot of sort of surface treatments and I wanted to highlight that in this novel.
Would that be fair to say?
Yeah, it's been an interesting journey.
This is my ninth book so I've been writing seriously for 15 years and
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