What I Wish I'd Known

Maggie O'Farrell

Jul 25, 2022

48:20

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Is Convalescence a Part of Being a Child?

02:32

What's Extraordinary About the Binoculars?

02:09

Do You Remember When You Came Back to School?

01:37

Introduction

2min

Writing in a Pen and Ink Stand

1min

The Best Literature Comes From a Place of Pain

2min

You Were a Nightmare to Me?

2min

What Was It Like Growing Up With a Headache?

3min

What Was the Most Scary Moment?

2min

Do You Feel Resigned of Dying?

4min

Is Convalescence a Part of Being a Child?

3min

Coming So Close to Death as a Young Child

3min

10.

Do You Remember When You Came Back to School?

2min

11.

Past in Perfect With Alice Thompson, Rachel Sylvester, and Maggi O'Farrell

5min

12.

What's Extraordinary About the Binoculars?

2min

13.

Do You Have to Stop Telling Your Children Not to Go Out?

4min

14.

The Next Near-Death Experience

3min

15.

Do You Know What You're Going to Do?

2min

16.

Is There Anything I Can Do About It?

2min

17.

Are You Reckless When You Have a Child?

3min

18.

Ivf

4min

19.

Past and Perfect With Rachel Sylvester, Alice Thompson and Maggie O'Farrell

2min

Maggie O’Farrell is a novelist who has won multiple awards for her best selling books.

In 2007 she was named as one of Waterstones 25 authors of the future and her recent book Hamnet won The Women's Prize for Fiction and National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. Her new novel out in August 2022 called The Marriage Portrait is much anticipated by her many fans.

But despite her success as a writer, Maggie’s life has been littered with misfortunes and sliding door moments. Rachel and Alice sit down with Maggie to talk about the life threatening illness she suffered with as a child, a near miss of drowning as a teenager and her encounter with a stranger on a dark night who she later found out was a murderer.

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This podcast has been produced in association with Speakers for Schools: www.speakersforschools.org

Producers: Anya Pearce and Lucy Dichmont

Series producer: Ben Mitchell

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What I Wish I'd Known

Maggie O'Farrell

Is Convalescence a Part of Being a Child?

What's Extraordinary About the Binoculars?

Do You Remember When You Came Back to School?

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