S2 EP16: Nadia Shireen
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What Did You Do Yesterday? with Max Rushden & David O'Doherty
1h 23m
3 speakers
8 chapters
transcribed 3 months ago
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Podcasts, there are millions of them.
Some might say too many.
I have one already.
I don't have any, because there are enough.
Politics, business, sport, you name it, there's a podcast about it, and they all ask the big questions and cover the hot topics of the day.
But nobody is covering the most important topic of all. Why is that? Are they scared? Too afraid of being censored by the man? No.
Possibly, but not us. We're here to ask the only question that matters.
We try and say it at the same time, Max.
What did you do yesterday?
What did you do yesterday?
What did you do yesterday? That's it. All we're interested in is what the guests got up to yesterday. Nothing more.
Day before yesterday, Max? Nope. The greatest and most interesting day of your life?
Unless it was yesterday, we don't want to know about it. I'm Max Rushton.
And I'm David O'Doherty.
Welcome to What Did You Do Yesterday? Hello and welcome to What Did You Do Yesterday? This is exciting, David.
Another of your bookings.
You have a friend who is a real person, is not a comedian.
Yeah.
And people have said, get somebody who isn't a comedian. Just find someone. I found a footballer. You found an author. You find someone who doesn't just wander around the streets frantically saying things to their phone that might be funny, talks about how much rent in Edinburgh is, and then buggers off to Melbourne for a month and then repeats this for the rest of their life. You know an actual person, David.
Our guest today is one of the great children's authors, I would say, around at the moment. Her name is Nadia Shireen. I mean, you might know her from a series of books you should get for your nieces and nephews called Grimwood. Barbara Throws a Wobbler. Sounds like I'm making up all of these books. Genuinely, Barbara Throws a Wobbler is my favorite picture book of the last few years. She hosts the Island of Brilliant podcast with Frank Cottrell Boyce. So she's up there. She gets the respect in the biz. Hmm. Yeah, I thought I would ask her, find out what she did yesterday that, as you say, won't involve eating a Nando's out there, doing a gig. I actually didn't think the gig went that well. Blah, blah, blah.
It won't be like that.
Here's the art of comedy. What I really understand about the art of comedy, if I could wind it in the rest of you, here's a real person. And, you know, for the tape, we have just recorded the bath sequences.
Yeah.
Beautiful. It's beautiful. Here is what Nadia Shireen did yesterday.
Nadia Shireen, welcome to What Did You Do Yesterday? Thank you so much. This is very exciting because... This is proof that David knows someone who isn't officially a stand-up comedian. It's the only person he knows that doesn't spend their life living out of a bag playing Chichester. Unless that's what you did yesterday.
I mean, look, there's a tiny bit of that. But no, I'm not a stand-up comedian. I mean, no offence, David, but stand-up comedians are weird people. Yeah.
Look, I thought I would ask you to do it. And thank you very much for doing it. Because, you know, your books are so wonderful and magical. And you bring joy to the lives of children. So I would imagine the day is like hanging around a riverbank waiting to see a kingfisher and write a poem.
Oh, maybe it is. Maybe it is. I do make children's books. That's true. I think a mistake that people make with people that write children's books is that they are nice people who have picnics with bears and bunnies. The truth is we've all got hunchbacks. We're really bitter.
You're a total arsehole.
We are the only people worse than us. Authors in general, children's book authors, sidebar, are stand-up comedians. They're the only people who are worse, I think.
Because I would have said the only people worse than stand-up comedians to hang out with are DJs. sort of commercial radio because it's all how'd she get that gig how'd he get that gig what's the story you know there's a lot of that sort of chat as opposed to the joy of the magic and wonder maybe that's all creative industries though I reckon people are like that in telly don't you think yeah I am
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:02–5:09
2
What unique approach does Nadia Shireen take in her storytelling?
5:09–9:16
3
How does Nadia Shireen balance her personal life with her creative work?
9:16–16:47
4
What interesting experiences did Nadia have during her day?
16:47–22:40
5
How does Nadia incorporate her pets into her daily routine?
22:40–27:32
6
What challenges does Nadia face as a children's author?
27:32–33:28
7
How does Nadia's family life influence her writing process?
33:28–40:13
8
What insights does Nadia provide about parenting and creativity?
40:13–1:22:57