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

And she just kind of leaned really close to the camera and said, I want to make this.

And kind of slapped the book.

This, this, this.

And she said, if you don't do it, I'm not going to do it.

So I was kind of, oh, okay, all right.

Yes.

Yeah.

So I went back in and my husband said to me, went back to the kitchen and my husband said, oh, how did you take it?

And I said,

Actually, I've changed my mind.

I've changed my mind.

Now I'm going to do it.

Yeah, I mean, I'd written another, you know, I wrote a book called The Marriage Portrait in between and

I mean, I think I was very lucky that I was collaborating with Chloe, because obviously it goes without saying, Chloe's got a lot of experience in bringing stories to the screen.

And she had a very clear idea right from the start about which elements of the book she wanted to keep and which we needed to lose.

Because obviously the first job is to kind of cut it down.

yeah i was sad i was like the animated bit where the fleet comes off chloe said that if we had filmed actually i mean we wanted to keep it if we if we had filmed it that would have taken up the entire budget for the whole film oh yeah totally just that short i think you didn't need it but yeah you know a large elizabethan ship yeah yeah you know would have been quite costly cartoon guys cut to the cartoon the ship and the fleet okay why don't you make your version of hamlet yeah you're

Yeah, you do it.

Call it the plague.

Yeah, I think it's... Maybe a sitcom about the plague.

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