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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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 8 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 7.

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And then they said, okay, now you need to go and talk about it at this book festival.

I was absolutely appalled because I thought I'd found a job that...

meant I didn't need to.

But since then, I've had a lot of speech therapy, which has helped enormously.

And it also does, I mean, someone said to me, another writer said, you know, it gets easier.

The more you do it, the easier it gets.

Because it really, well, I was never the child at school who wanted to be on stage or be in the school play.

That has been my actual worst nightmare.

In fact, when we were filming Hamnet,

They said, oh, we think you should do a cameo.

And I was kind of just absolutely not.

There's no way I'm dressing up in a Tudor outfit and you can put me on camera.

Enjoy your trip to the woods!

No, it wasn't.

So it wasn't really my thing, but it does get a bit easier.

And, you know, talk to you guys, which is your most nice people.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Well, I mean, book festivals are great, aren't they?

What could be better really than going and talking about books?

Well, I think it's not that I ever wanted to be a writer.

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