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 bleak.

I thought it would be very scary.

And it isn't.

I don't think this is a scary book for someone who's terrified of everything.

But is it, like...

Well, I guess also it's the birth of horror.

She was 18 when she started, 19 when it finished.

Although she did three sort of versions of it through her life.

Although I was reading on Kindle the early version and then I bought the proper one and I didn't realise this was the updated one, the 1831 version.

Also that Percy added bits.

Yeah.

I just want to quote that was in the introduction because initially when it came out, no one believed that woman wrote it.

It was reprinted.

It was instant bestseller at that age.

And it was reprinted and then they put her name on it properly.

And there was an amazing quote from Blackwoods exclaimed, for a man, it was excellent.

For a woman, it was wonderful.

Oh, interesting.

So the Dal Toro, which I watched on the Netflix, the most recent version.

Yeah.

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