Sara Pascoe
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2,541 appearances
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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 · Frankenstein by Mary Shelley with Vanessa Hammick · 14 May 2026
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So that is a really weird mix of faithful and not faithful.
He does a really annoying thing with his family.
So the dad is evil and the mum dies because of like... And the brother survives.
It takes loads of stuff.
But it does include...
It definitely, I was surprised when I started reading it because again, hadn't read it, have read lots of 19th century literature, assumed it was going to be like, oh, a tome.
But you are really reading a teenager's
He never qualified.
I think in Geneva in 1830 that was, you're a doctor.
You're a man and you went to university.
No one ever calls him doctor.
They call him Monsieur.
Yeah, Monsieur M. Frankenstein.
Yeah, the hammer horror, the bolts, all that Bride of Frankenstein.
The 20th century take on it is very strong.
So it is interesting you haven't seen it because that, I think, when you come to the book, you're coming with so many expectations of what the monster should be.
That's what I didn't... I also didn't know what the monster part of the story was.
It's not a happy one.
He's self-obsessed.
and i definitely didn't have a mother i find it interesting because all i've ever been told or absorbed is that she lost three children and it was kind of all about and her mother um yeah i've heard it more in kinds of motherhood but i read a 19 year old girl whose mom died at birth yeah and like the monsters she creates and this this this dark agony that you cannot get rid of obviously my
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