When I last spoke to Richard Osman, in the strange, uneasy summer of 2020, the genial TV exec-turned-Pointless host was still waiting, slightly anxiously, to see how his debut novel would be received. “I’m very proud of it,” he told me. “But as to what happens next… I don’t know.” Flash forward to today, andContinue reading “Richard Osman: “If you’re worried I don’t have enough failure in my life, I can assuage those worries””
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David Nicholls: ‘I don’t know if authors should think too much about where they come on the brow scale.’
The year is 2009. Gordon Brown is Prime Minister, Slumdog Millionaire sweeps the board at the Oscars, and Susan Boyle outsells Beyoncé and Taylor Swift to become the UK’s unlikely new queen of pop. In publishing, meanwhile, the year marks the arrival of two very different, but equally cherished, literary sensations: Hilary Mantel’s Booker Prize-winningContinue reading “David Nicholls: ‘I don’t know if authors should think too much about where they come on the brow scale.’”
Stephen Mangan: “What is comedy? It’s laughing at someone else’s pain.”
As an actor, and now as a writer, Stephen Mangan instinctively finds himself drawn to projects that dig deep into human pain – and the more jokes, the merrier. “I’ve always believed that comedy is a fantastic way to deal with the most profound and difficult of emotions,” Stephen tells Weekend over Zoom. “That’s sort of whatContinue reading “Stephen Mangan: “What is comedy? It’s laughing at someone else’s pain.””
Don’t leave me this way: the Reverend Richard Coles on the madness of grief
“The thing about grief,” says the Reverend Richard Coles, “is that we think there are ways of doing it, and there aren’t. You don’t do grief, it does you. You just have to let it work its way through you.” In 2020, Richard had plenty of time to let grief work its way through him,Continue reading “Don’t leave me this way: the Reverend Richard Coles on the madness of grief”
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