John Lanchester
speaker
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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I mean, I did at one point, because they're people who, they think they're nice, but they're not particularly.
I did at one point think about calling them John and Miranda, which is partly, you know, inherently funny, I thought, and also partly as a kind of slight fuck you to everyone who thinks everything is autobiographical.
But Alex Bowler, my editor at Faber, warned me of that.
He said because it would become the only thing that was talked about.
Yeah.
And also, it's also a little bit like that thing.
There's an episode of The Simpsons where they form a barbershop quartet called the B-sharps.
And they're talking about this.
What we need is a name that's really funny the first time you hear it.
And then it's a slightly less funny after that.
And I thought that that joke might be a bit like that.
But I...
I have had a long and happy marriage and been very blessed to do so, but that made me interested in that thing about codes and, you know, just as a secret private language.
But apart from that, I don't think there's much of us in them.
I certainly hope not.
Crikey, I hadn't thought about that.
Long happy marriages in fiction, I'm not sure that's a thing.
No.
I can't remember, was it, who said happiness writes white?
Right, yeah.
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