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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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 5 in all, peaking in May 2026 with 4.

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

And I feel like the internet flattens context, doesn't it?

And books can give that back.

You can actually see... You can sympathise in a novel with a character doing a bad or stupid thing.

So novels are where we can reclaim a bit of empathy and compassion, perhaps.

Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth · More Rosebud - Matt Haig · 26 May 2026 podcast

But it's...

I think, you know, I know one of my first memories was definitely falling into a patch of stinging nettles in our back garden when we lived in North Nottinghamshire in a village called Ramby.

It wasn't a picturesque village particularly because we had the A1 just literally beyond our hedge.

And my nan had been looking after me.

My parents were out.

And I fell into a patch of stinging nettles.

And the thing about stinging nettles and being a toddler is if you're trying to get out of the stinging nettles, you're making the situation worse because you're getting stung in your effort to escape.

So I think that was certainly my first unhappy memory.

But it may also be tied to a slightly happier one.

Because my favourite thing to do in the garden, when my nan or my mum was out, like hanging, washing on the line, they would have a little yellow plastic wash basket.

And I used to occupy myself by throwing it in the air and trying to catch it on my head.

And that was my main hobby for a year or so.

But that might be why I fell into the stinging nettles.

Well, absolutely.

I think so.

Certainly my life.

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