John Lanchester

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548 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 27 Jun

John Lanchester’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Because it's like a real person.

I wonder what so-and-so would do.

Well, they would do X.

No, it's more the other way around.

It's more you're just thinking, what's that person like?

What's their story?

What's it like being in their skin?

And then when those things happen in the book, you know what they would say or do.

So I think, funnily enough, it couldn't be more different as an artifact.

But the people who do the thick of it, I was very struck by hearing their process, because they spend months.

I think it's like three to six months just working out who the characters are.

And then they would do the storylines queued off for news.

Because then they knew the characters so well.

They knew what they would do, how they'd behave, what the jokes would be.

And then could just fit it around and react to what was actually happening.

I thought that was really interesting as a process.

And I've definitely moved more towards that.

Everyone knows what a bitch is.

A vampire is someone who feeds off the emotional energy.

of people around them.

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