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The Waterstones Podcast - Beginnings
Your chance to hear authors going beyond the book to talk about the themes and ideas that obsess us all.
Beginnings
In this first episode we get to meet hosts Will Rycroft, Holly Davies and Dan Bird as they talk with bestselling author and screenwriter David Nicholls about their beginnings with books. Nicholls also shares his experiences as an actor which feed directly into his new novel, Sweet Sorrow, which charts one life-changing summer as Charlie meets Fran during rehearsals for Romeo and Juliet and the two experience the transformative power of first love. Nicholls also speaks about his BAFTA Award-winning adaptation of Edward St Aubyn’s Patrick Melrose novels for TV.
There’s also the chance to hear from Michael Palin as he talks about the fear and excitement that attends to the beginning of almost any enterprise, whether that be a journey, a new TV programme or sitting down to write fresh comedy. His latest book, Erebus, tells the story of HMS Erebus, the famous exploring vessel which went missing in the Arctic and whose wreck was recently discovered.
We also hear from Tomi Adeyemi’s event to launch her Waterstones Children’s Book Prize Older Fiction category-winning YA novel, Children of Blood and Bone. She shares a brilliant story about a young girl jumping to the head of the signing queue to demonstrate the importance of representation in encouraging younger generations to begin writing themselves.
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Just listened to the podcast and was very impressed. Not so much in terms of content (which is fairly standard across BBC arts podcasts, the Guardian podcast, Bookseller, etc) but more for the general production values in which that content was placed. Presenters were articulate, spoke clearly and intelligently but also from a sincere personal feeling. Brilliant idea to link the theme of beginning to the presenters' own careers, allowing for heir personalities and backgrounds to emerge organically. The idea of structuring around a theme worked really well since it provides a natural through line linking a range of different content. Segways between different sections can often feel so blunt and forced but here it was seamless. I think it would be good to hear more from the booksellers at the end - see for example the Book Clinic section of the Bookseller podcast. Also to find a way to include listeners in the podcast maybe by soliciting ideas on social media or using Waterstones website reviews. I like he way that Radiolab get listeners to read end credits at the back of each episode. Maybe you could do something like that? In all, a very worthwhile listen and I will definitely subscribe to hear future episodes. View more
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