Maggie O’Farrell
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1,785 appearances
8 recordings
7 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 14 Jun
Maggie O’Farrell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Sara & Cariad's Weirdos Book Club · Land by Maggie O'Farrell with Maggie O'Farrell · 11 Jun 2026
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My dad, when we asked him to read us a bedtime story, he would only ever read us Irish myths.
And we used to beg him, you know, I used to say, please can you read Pippi Longstocking?
or the Moomins but he'd always say no I'm going to resist so actually it was annoying at the time but I'm really glad in a way it is because I think it kind of forms my sort of bedrock or my DNA for storytelling it's all kind of in my head those strange stories that are all all sort of rooted in a truth I mean they've obviously been embroidered and changed and mythologised and fictionalised in the time since but it's still all there so it was really important to me I wanted to go right back
to the first people who inhabited Ireland.
There's actually one, there's actually one, there's half a clause later in the book which takes you back to the Ice Age.
I was so happy.
That's what I wanted to say.
Yeah, it goes right back to the Ice Age as well.
That's really going to put people off, isn't it?
I wondered if you'd read Helm by Sarah Hall.
Yeah, I've read about that in records, the workhouse records.
And it's really, it was a detail that really stuck out to me because it was kind of, and I read about it in history books as well.
And it's always been kind of presented or it's often presented as a kind of positive.
It's so great.
These girls were given a new start and they went to Australia.
But I was thinking, hang on a second.
These girls were young.
I mean, they were 13, 14.
And they had no choice.
No choice.
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