Sara Pascoe
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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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It's like, she fucking wrote, whatever we think of it.
She was 19 and she wrote a book.
The good decency to put a Mary Shelley quote at the end of it, not fucking Byron.
Yeah.
Again, that's why it felt so male to me.
So was it a Byron quote about Frankenstein?
No, I actually don't, it's like a, I can't remember the quote.
It may be about Frankenstein, but I still think you could have done the good deed and put a Mary Shelley quote on there.
Yeah.
It really annoyed me.
Absolutely.
So in the book, it's... So in the film, it feels like he might go and die, but he might go and just live a life of being immortal.
I think that's why this book has lasted the test of time.
Because you're right, the broad strokes in it mean it can be read all sorts of different ways.
But there is so much emotion in the book.
Like there is so much emotion.
And I can't help, you can't help but tie in her story.
Like it's so impossible to not tie in the story of this girl born to radicals who were so famous.
And how many men she must have had to sat near listening.
And she even, there's a bit in our Penguin Classics version where there's a quote from Mary saying that during the holidays she sat in silence listening to Byron and Percy talking all night.
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