Will Eaves
speaker
270 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 8 Jul
Will Eaves’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And everyone gets on board.
Yeah.
And it's extremely revealing in a very, very moving way.
What has gone wrong with academia?
What are we for?
And why do we want this new bit of kit?
Will it actually be of any use?
Well, you asked me to do this.
I think... Or they ask me and then I write a blurb and they say...
Oh, we were hoping for something a bit more, you know, a few more adjectives.
I mean, I think he's another entirely sympathetic character.
By the way, this is a very, very difficult trick to pull off, I think, when you're writing a comic novel because the sort of engine behind comedy is largely, it's always an animus.
There's always a degree of anger behind it.
So it's actually quite difficult to turn that into characters who remain funny but are sympathetic.
It's not that I'm just saying, oh, someone's fashioned a sympathetic character.
It's hard to do within the context of comedy.
It tends to go flat because you've simply got likeable people and there's no resistance.
Although I'm sure you would concede...
Elements of people to whom you are very, very close.
Characters are composites.
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