Jan Carson

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829 appearances 3 recordings 3 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 14 May

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Brendan O'Connor · Jan Carson - “Maybe the whole of Northern Ireland should have gone to therapy” · 18 Apr 2026 podcast

Not this one, this three and four between nearly broke me, but that is a very complicated narrative.

But I write quick in first draft and then I'm like a prolific editor.

So this went to nearly 30 edits.

Usually a book a day, but I mean, it's my job to read and I read for four hours a day and I write for two hours a day.

That's the formula that works for me.

And I also, people hate when I say this, but I got rid of my television 15 years ago and it really helped.

I'm interviewing Alan Davis at Kirch on Wednesday and I don't know what I'm going to talk to him about because I haven't seen him in any TV programme since like 2005.

So you don't miss it?

No, I don't miss it at all.

And I fill that in with reading.

Yeah.

And what about news?

How do you get your news?

I'm sorry, I'm allowed to say I'm a massive Radio 4 listener on RTA.

Do you want to hear something really funny?

There's a fake citations in it and one is a fake episode of Spotlight, the news show in the north.

And I heard on the grapevine that one of the producers was like, I don't actually remember myself.

making that programme?

When did I make that programme?

So it's actually made the real people doubt themselves.

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