Matt Haig

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2,177 appearances 5 recordings 4 series first heard May 2026 last heard 18 Jun

Matt Haig’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Sara & Cariad's Weirdos Book Club · The Midnight Train by Matt Haig with Matt Haig · 28 May 2026 podcast

And what it basically was in that first draft was it was an, a sort of AI software company had offered people at the end of their life to relive that without them knowing if they didn't want to.

And then his, you know, AI is glitching and,

And it was, I really liked the concept, but it was just, it started to feel really cold and the characters weren't there.

So I just went a bit more back with my sort of like children's author hat on and I thought like steam trains.

I was just thinking of warmth and you know make it less.

Yeah it would have been an okay short story like it was a high concept thing but

And the generation where they would have possibly played with trains as a child.

Just put bookseller right in the middle of the strap.

Yes, definitely.

And that side of it is kind of what I'm trying to talk about in the book where I talk about bookshops.

I'm talking about that art of matching a book to a person.

That must have been shoplifter central.

Where were you shoplifting?

Well, I grew up in Nottinghamshire, so I fancied myself as sort of Robin Hood.

So I got caught for shoplifting, wet look hair gel when I had hair.

Boots, yeah, classic.

And a crunchy bar, so they obviously sold confectionery at the time.

And, yeah, and I was just, you don't shoplift from Boots because they've got lots of plain clothes people.

Oh, so it's not cheaper because it's just cheaper.

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