Robert Forster
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295 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2019
last heard 14 Jun
Robert Forster’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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it into mixed mouth and I just thought it was a funny thing.
When people are on drugs and drinking beer and smoking cigarettes in a car, that's what they talk about.
He's a m a man in his late uh fifties, early sixties, and he's a a school teacher.
A a love school teacher, very, you know, from the evidence you get from the book, a very good one, and his pupils admire and listen to him.
He's also uh married to a woman called Evie and they have one child.
They're a professional couple living their son has moved out, living in a very nice house that um she's inherited from her family.
So there's
a slight class thing going on where he's sort of married up in in a way.
He's also um goes out sailing by himself.
When I was reading the character, actually I w I was trying to picture him and I don't know if you agree, Kate, but the person that came to my mind, and this might sound like a like two steps sideways, but was Tim Waltz, you know the governor of Minnesota who who um
Um
ran as the vice president.
That sort of guy, you know, if you can picture him, you know, good hearted in his late fifties and sort of genial and for the community and loved.
That was the sort of picture of what this guy was in my head.
Yeah.
Well, no, and that's probably one of the the early surprises of the book is that he has this idyllic life going on and um there's inner demons and obviously that's part of what the book is about is bringing them out and and you know, and quite soon into the book he has this fixation of of wanting to kill himself, which you know, as a reader that comes across as sort of a
bit of a surprise because his life is so good.
But yeah, I mean that's, you know, the title of the book, you know, the things we never say.
is he can't explain this to anyone.
You know, he's meeting a lot of people like Flossie and and but it never bursts through and and that's the tension, definitely in the first half of the book.
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