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 · Land by Maggie O'Farrell with Maggie O'Farrell · 11 Jun 2026 podcast

I want to do this.

I had a red and white striped piece of material up to here.

And then I came out with a saucepan and a black handbag.

But the joke was, do you remember when the killing was really famous, like Scandi Noir?

So the joke was that Moomin Mama was dealing with now there's all these murders in Moominland.

I've got to solve them.

Who killed the mother Moomin?

But yeah, Tove Janssen, The Moomins are extraordinary books.

And that doesn't surprise me you like them, because the thing that I like about them is the deep melancholy that runs through them, along with the joy.

And I think you have that in your writing as well.

There is this absolute thread of the other side of life, that it's not all perfect.

There is this deep sadness, like Moominland in winter.

It's so good.

Yes, I did.

But we still know that it's not nice when you write and people break things up.

Oh, sorry.

They weren't quick enough.

Well, you know, it's a pop, you know, there's a lot of interest.

like the world doesn't really like this but we're all gonna sort of queue up for coffees and pretend it is we're gonna pretend just for a weekend yeah yeah i think that's it with right once you accept like you're talking normally to book people you know your audience isn't people who hate books and they want to hear from you but obviously you know we started as performers and then became moved into writing so it's very i understand that like for us it was never like oh god getting up in front of people wasn't it it was like i'd rather do that and sit down do the writing because

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