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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I mean, yeah, absolutely.
Yes, but my mother was adopted, so she wasn't her mother by blood, but my nan was a very special person.
After my parents was the most significant person in my life, at least when my sister was born, when I was little, she was probably the kindest person I knew.
What was her name?
Flora.
But she was a very strong-willed, let's say.
Kind, but strong-willed.
She was the person you'd go to if your tooth needed pulling out.
And she would do the whole thing with the string and the door handle.
Literally with the string and the door handle.
I think she did once, yes.
But I can remember her always being the person.
Emma was blood involved.
And she was not particularly strong on corporal punishment.
But I can remember wooden spoons, her standing there, her silhouette in the doorway when she babysat for me and my sister.
If we'd been naughty, she would stand in the doorway.
We'd see this big silhouette of my nan.
She'd be holding a wooden spoon.
not actually to use it on us, but to sort of look threatening and menacing in the doorway.
But she was a great, kind person in lots of ways and very strong-willed.
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