John Mitchinson

Hi, it's John here.

Hello, it's Andy.

And welcome to one of the archive episodes of Backlisted from the far distant... Well, it's not that distant past this one, is it, Johnny?

Well, there.

These aren't spoilers.

These are incentives to keep listening.

I don't remember anything about most of what John said.

And that's good because if I did have, as we know, if we could all remember anything, we wouldn't do anything.

We'd be too mortified to continue.

She died in obscurity.

And is good.

And she loved a drink.

And therefore fulfills all the criteria of a backlisted subject.

They're poor agents, everyone.

They're poor agents.

Right, quickly, let me talk about what we've got coming up on the Patreon.

If you come over to our Patreon at patreon.com forward slash backlisted, you will find all manner of treats, written treats, listening treats, and a couple in particular we want to flag up with you now.

you can sign up for Posh Bingo, which is our appropriation of Julian Barnes's name for the Booker Prize.

We will be discussing Profit Song by Paul Lynch, which won the Booker Prize for Fiction in 2023.

You can contribute to that show via the Patreon and we'll read out your messages and you get to hear the three of us chewing the fat about that particular novel.