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But there's also then, interspersed with that, there are 13 characters who are just, you know, locals.

And what they think of the book, what they think, or rather what they think of the TV show, whether they think it's going to be an absolute, you know, hames, it's going to bring up all, you know, traumas, it's going to, you know, be a corny, Americanised thing.

Or whether they think it's going to be brilliant, it's going to bring money to the town, or they just don't care either way, but they want a job.

Um, so each of those I do in the audio book, I read the Dermot chapters and then every other one is done by a different actor.

So there's some great people, Ian McElhinney from, uh, Derry girls.

He might know as the granda who doesn't get along with Tommy Tiernan.

Um, he's wonderful.

Um, Frank McCafferty, we've got Kathy Keira Clark.

So we really have, uh,

You know, they're going to be battered around the doors.

But it was great because they just, they really did seem to, you know, kind of meet the material.

And especially because so many of them were from Derry.

I think they kind of approached it with that tone and that sort of, that meter, that rhythm.

I mean, that has happened to me with most of the stuff that I've done.

But it's better to be compared to something like Derry Girls, which I love.

And I think the good thing about Derry Girls is that I think it showed...

I mean, and the North more broadly, but it showed a less dire, more, you know, fun, absurd, silly side of Derry, which is exactly the Derry that I grew up in.

And I think there's, there's elements of that in Prestige drama and in Did You Hear Mammy Died?

Because

Obviously, it's a novel that's about, you know, trauma and all that stuff.