Sara Pascoe

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2,541 appearances 7 recordings 2 series first heard Aug 2025 last heard 11 Jun

Sara Pascoe’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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

If a book makes you happy, it makes you happy.

I think there's... You enjoyed reading it.

And also... You've won.

Congratulations.

Here's your award.

Which again, I think is a power to writing.

I think they also sniff bad stories really quickly.

So the moment something's off, they're like, why has she gone there?

And I think adult readers tend to be like, well, I'm sure they'll explain to me why that person.

Whereas, I mean, my daughter especially is just like, well, I don't believe it.

And like books by, you know,

like famous books i'll just she just will just chuck them across the room boring maybe that's why they seem more better readers because they are reading for pleasure and pleasure yeah yeah yeah and if there isn't pleasure then it's not working and there's something really honest about that yeah but it's not doing something like it's not like oh i'm intrigued or i'm afraid or i i'm laughing they want some reaction and they don't get it quite quickly they're like well what what

well we'll just read another one and they also have no concept of like this is a good book you know they don't they just go i like that one then they they seem much less bothered by other like oh my friend liked that one they're like oh you know eva like that one but i was stupid like they just it's very yeah it's straight in there clearer and that's why i feel like like something like winnie the pooh still stands the test of time because you're straight in there straight in with dialogue straight in with the stories straight in with the missing can i disagree with

a bit there's that bit where they're talking about reading the book to someone else do you remember this i tried to read it recently in the winnie the pooh yeah it starts with him saying this i'm reading to a child and i'm reading you a story about winnie the pooh and the child's like are you and then the writer says yes i am let me tell you once you get past that you hit some stories yeah yeah that's what i do that goes to like number five and just yeah yeah yeah he's talking to a child about the

I would say Wind in the Willows is the most, I was like, wow, what?

Like neither child knew what, they're like, what's happening?

What's going on?

And all you remember as a kid is like, toad is naughty.

But yeah, it's really deep and confusing.

Yeah, I'd say it's definitely got that like postmodernism feel about it.

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