Maggie O’Farrell

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1,785 appearances 8 recordings 7 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 14 Jun

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Sara & Cariad's Weirdos Book Club · Land by Maggie O'Farrell with Maggie O'Farrell · 11 Jun 2026 podcast

I wanted to know if this was true.

And also one of my dad's siblings passed away and we got sent by his widow a lot of stuff that was from our family.

And so in all that stuff was lots of different things.

But there was a photograph of him, the mapper, with his son on his knee, which just seems astonishing from that.

I mean, I think it's from the 1850s.

Wow.

Yeah.

And they were not rich people.

Was someone that told me a friend, a cousin of mine said that they were often photographers who kind of wandered around.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

If you hadn't.

the cash you could pay for someone to take a photo of you so who knows i don't know where it came from but also there's a hand-drawn map in the style of the ordnance survey by done by liam wow his father which is and i'd never seen it before yeah and that's been that was a real inspiration for the book oh my god that's fascinating and so you've got this really personal connection to a really like heartbreakingly sad period of history as i started reading

Yeah, I mean, it was a hard thing to research.

But like you say, when I was, I mean, I was at comprehensive school in Scotland and we were taught two things about the great famine in Ireland, one of which was that it was caused, the cause of it entirely and all the disaster was caused by a bacterium.

Yeah, there's no political or social historic background to it at all.

And then we were also taught that Queen Victoria gave some of her own personal money.

I mean, she did, but it was not very much.

Let's just say the Sultan of Turkey gave more.

The Choctaw Nation in America, who obviously were not a very wealthy people, they had a wit round and gave some money.

So...

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