John Mitchinson

Yeah.

You know who writes multiple drafts of his novels, don't you?

And we're going to be hearing from him later on, everybody, so be ready.

Well, as you know from my close study of The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown... Don't start me on The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown.

No, but I feel quite sorry for Dan Brown because the Wikipedia page of errors in The Da Vinci Code is so huge because clearly nobody...

authorial or editorial went through it, checking to see if there were any mistakes in it.

So I bet they do now.

I bet they're very careful now anyway.

So we're gathered together to talk about Penelope Fitzgerald.

And before we start talking about human voices, one of the things I really love about Penelope Fitzgerald, now I've read Hermione Lee's biography, is that Penelope Fitzgerald really liked watching TV.

That's one of the things that comes through loud and clear.

She was a big fan of settling down in front of the telly.

So we're going to start with a clip of Penelope Fitzgerald.

Her work has been adapted for film.

This book we're talking about today, Human Voices, is currently being adapted for BBC TV.

And she was on TV just a couple of weeks ago thus far.

I love him.

If he'd said three kittens, he would have got 16.

So I just thought that was a sign.

That's one of the many signs that made me want to do this particular episode, is that the novels of Penelope Fitzgerald, I obviously edited that down, so you don't get the full two minutes.