Nicky Birch
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487 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 31 Aug
Nicky Birch’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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This is so hard because you've got to get off at Heathrow, which is a huge airport.
Yeah.
There's so much difficulty even just getting to where you need to get to if you have no language understanding.
We just assume as English people, don't we, that everyone can speak English and that's OK, Jack.
But life must have been very, very different.
arrogance um but but it's the the thought of not having any means of accessing anything that strikes me as really revolutionary about this couple i was worried about them in fear i was like how are you going to manage this without you know and i you're right if i'd have gone to iceland and not been able to speak and communicate i probably would have been you might have found yourself um uh you know striking up more relationships with people because you're having to kind of
you know, communicate.
I remember when I was in France as a teenager and we had some, I had a beautiful little summer romance with a boy who we just sort of pointed at the sun.
Soleil, you know, giggles because it wasn't much more.
There wasn't much more that we could do apart from snog and the five words that we had in common.
It was wonderful.
So maybe there's beauty in that too.
It was it was you were cut off.
You were cut off.
Well, I think it's time we went on to the next book.
It is Flashlight by Susan Choi, nominated for the 2025 Booker Prize.
Shortlisted, sorry, not nominated.
international booker no the domestic the straight up okay right straight up shortlisted for the straight up booker prize um and i'm just going to say this is a big holiday read you know you want a big holiday read this is the book it's a book it's like a lit fiction book that you can get really stuck into it was published in 2025 and it's one of those kind of big ambitious literary novels that you see in all bookshops and if you want to have a kind of big family saga book
It's great.
It began life as a short story, but she adapted it into a... I'm going to give you the pages already.
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