Miranda Sawyer

Hello and welcome to Talk90s to meet where the word is on the street that the fire in your heart is out.

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Thank you, King Jeremy.

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OK, now on with the show.

This is Talk 90s to Me, where we ponce around in an indie band for a couple of years, then blag our way into a record company, become a successful A&R person through Mike Flowers Pops, of all people, turn down Coldplay, sign Mogwai, enjoy the highs and more highs of music business success before hopping off the slowing gravy train and becoming a best-selling author and scriptwriter.

I'm Miranda Sawyer, and this week on Talk 90s To Me, I am delighted to be talking to John Niven, writer of books, movies and plays such as Kill Your Friends, Kill Em All, Straight White Male, Oh Brother, The Fathers and The Battle, and, as I mentioned, an actual A&R man in the actual 90s who lived to tell the tale.