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
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I'll look up for five seconds and take a picture of my phone.
look back for your life did you kind of go there and be like what were the bits my train would slow down at yeah i mean but there's a lot of my parents in this book because my parents were in sheffield in the 1960s and so a lot of this book as you know is set in sheffield and set in sheffield in the past and so one of the things and i was born in sheffield but i didn't grow up in sheffield i grew up in nightinghamshire
But we were always in Sheffield.
So my parents spoke about Sheffield the way people talk about swinging London.
You know, they talk about it as art school and Rolling Stones concerts and Malcolm X came to visit.
And it's like, it's not what people, not what you hear of a sort of northern town in the 60s.
In the book, it happens in July 1964, but it actually happened in February 1964.
Because Sheffield City Hall has literally everything that's gone on there since 1952.
So you just sort of go through it.
Well, exactly.
And you think just music alone, what's come out of Sheffield.
I feel like Liverpool and Manchester obviously get their laurels, but Sheffield, for a city of under half a million people, to have Arctic Monkeys, Pulp, Human League, Heaven 17...
Self-esteem, yeah.
Yeah, it's incredible.
My dad, who doesn't normally say much about my books, he cried.
He cried at the end.
So I was like, oh.
So he must have seen a lot of, yeah.
I mean, he's very different to Wilbur.
My dad was sort of like, if anything, he was sort of like moved.
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