Stephen Mangan
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410 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 21 May
Stephen Mangan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And a 10-year-old girl going around up and knocking on strangers' doors or going into some of those houses is probably not on.
But it's a book, isn't it?
Right.
That's, yeah, fraud, yeah.
No, that wasn't the thing.
Yeah, I did a Scouter Bobber job.
I mean, I don't know.
I can't remember what I did with the money, whether I spent it on hair products or what.
Anyway, it's a book, so it's not real life.
I'm not telling people to knock on doors.
And also, you want children to have autonomy in stories.
That's why so many parents have died, so many orphans, because they need to be able to tackle the world on their own, otherwise it's just doing what your parents tell you to do.
No one wants that.
So, yeah, so she's on her own and she knocks on these doors and she's fine.
Can I just say that?
She's fine.
That's what you want as a kid.
I'm really mature I mean the thing is I well what I do is I do write to make myself and Anita laugh yeah that's what I'm thinking of the whole time and occasionally I leave I leave it up to the pub my editor to to to police it and sometimes she will go that's just too weird or too dark yeah and I'll go okay fine yeah I'm not precious about it but I think what else can you do you can't you can only write for your own sensibility what um kids books did you when you were growing up what was the things that like got you into reading
Oh God, I mean, I just read non-stop and we had, because I had two sisters, so at the dinner, we had sort of two benches and we were separated by gender for some reason.
So mum and my sister sat on one side and dad and me on the other.
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