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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It's not like I've dabbed, you've done one, got the cash and walked away.
Yeah, because you're taking away from people who it's their real job.
And if a children's book author turned up and was like, I'm going to be in a play.
But also, like you said, you've written nine.
It's not like you've dabbled your toe in, done the one show, talked about it and then fucked off.
It's quite clear you're committed and you care about middle grade writing.
And I think that's all children's authors want to feel, like you care.
And I find...
having written children's books that when people talk to you, people who haven't written them have an assumption that one, it's easy and two, it's really well paid.
And the thing I would say about children's books is it's really hard, but it's not well paid.
And so I think anyone, like if you scratch the surface, you're like, oh, I see these people aren't making like shit loads of money and then...
as soon as we show a cover.
But then I always try and like, let's just read it and see.
And then we can critically go, yeah, that is rubbish.
We're not going to carry on reading it.
just ask you know get them to ask teachers ask each other I like this you know recommend stuff to each other yeah that's what I do love so much it's in the same way that as adults if you find a book friend like you know you'll be like oh have you read that it's good kids do that all the time it's so lovely that they'll be like oh it's the new dog man this is like they get so excited about books and we are you know it's national year of reading everyone's so terrified that children aren't reading as much but like they do want to read it's not like they don't
like no there's no kids that don't want to read so it's like i think we should i think it's i think it may be adults need the year of reading more i mean it's us that can't put our bloody phones down well yeah this is it oh children where do they get that from i know yeah it is national year reading for everyone i think but they have been obviously focusing on children because they the numbers have gone down yeah there are less children reading but then i agree with you this is adults did it more yeah yeah suddenly kids numbers would pick up again
My daughter's favourite thing is to turn to me on the tube and go, 19.
And I go, what?
She goes, that's how many people are on their phones.
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