Louise Welsh
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182 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 7 Jul
Louise Welsh’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You could tell that Ian Banks, or it felt as though he'd had great fun, sort of wild fun, creating so much, including the house where, well, I say the house, the domain in which Danny lives.
We're told that he lives in this fake church that was built by a sort of mad with grief family.
millionaire in the 19th century and it's even got a fake churchyard outside and for some reason it's full of Eastern European goods I mean Eastern European alcohol vodka of course and plum brandy and stuff but also sort of I don't know bits of engineering I mean are we ever told why?
Actually, Danny is a really interesting character because he's partly enormously self-confident.
I mean, he's something like 17 when he approaches this rock band.
And, you know, they're just playing for fun.
They're all going on to university, they think.
And he says, look, I can write songs.
My songs will convert you.
Suddenly you will be a big success.
I mean, he really believes this.
But at the same time, what the regret is about through the book, it seems to me, is that he never quite pushed...
things far enough.
There's a whole load of things he didn't in his personal relationships.
And even he says, at one point he says, I could have been more radical in my songwriting.
This is a book with a very interesting end.
And I'm still not sure about it.
We obviously can't actually describe it.
But...
I found it, in a way, really effective because it's one of those endings that comes as a total surprise and about three seconds later you think, oh, of course, I can see this being set up.
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