Lauren Child
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94 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 27 Jul
Lauren Child’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But Bob holds it for him.
And I just thought that was a very, very interesting idea that there are people who do that.
Yes.
Yes, that's exactly right.
What's so beautiful, I think, about the storytelling is just as we feel Elizabeth Strout telling us the story, so Olive and Lucy connect through telling these, as you say, unrecorded stories and see the importance of them.
And so my point about Bob Burgess and feeling like no one is hearing him and understanding the importance of...
of these fragments from his life, is that Lucy does.
And Lucy says something to Olive about how lucky you are if there's one person who you really, truly love and understands you and you have somebody to tell your most important things to.
And I just thought that is so true, that it's very rare to have someone who really, really listens.
Oh, I find him very funny.
I mean, it reads a bit like a radio play.
You know, you can... His wonderful dialogue and those really kind of cruel observations, as well as then he can suddenly come in with something very understanding and then he shows you the character in the round.
And I love that.
It's funny...
What I feel about the first book, which you say is about old people, I don't see it as about old people.
And nor in a way do I see this about old people, because I think what he's doing is he's showing us that actually people are people.
And it's the way that we tend to see people differently.
You know, just the surface of them.
And yet all these people in this home are thrown together.
They have to be there.
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