Pingu

But they're based in the middle of nowhere, out in Connemara.

And we went out there just... have the crack and see what was going on I saw Pingu I got to hold a little Pingu because of the stop motion figures that they brought and Postman Pat as well but he was out there and he was telling me that he had all these ideas and he was like I wasn't sure where to start and I'm glad that you asked me up like this weekend just to have a look around and you'll see what was going on And I was like, yeah, it's kind of hard when you're not with other people that are like-minded and film, you know, interested.

Like, you don't really know where to start.

You know you have, like, an interest in filmmaking and an ambition and probably an idea and maybe a script if you have time to make one.

You can have a group of 12.

And, um, you are these weird sort of Pingu-looking things.

Uh, you know, like little-

Penguins

well, we know about that now.

Pingu? Harrowing.

Awful.

Awful.

which frankly feels like a genre that should have existed a long time ago.

So today I'm talking to Ollie about wine, writing, murder, bookshops, storytelling, and how on earth you go from writing Pingu... to putting a body in a vat of wine.

Olly, welcome to Confessions of a Book Collector.

Thank you so much for

We find bridges built between us, deeper connections, a more enriching sense of purpose and identity.

And all of those things I could not be more thrilled about.

And you wrote Pingu and Charlie and Lola before your wine career.

Yeah.

bank was with such a small bank, and then there was this Gogi Mörgæs, I don't know, Gogi.

Gogi Mörgæs was just, no, Maggi Mörgæs, or Pingu.

Yeah,

I don't know, Pingu, you know.

Yeah, there's a lot of them.

But if we don't go and get some...

And the two that I came up with, and this is not a bad comparison, I don't think.

I think Pingu is the animation one that we all love, that is dialogue-free and just communicates in any language.

But I think the other one, of course, is Bean, Mr Bean.

Oh, that's right.

i'm like that's such a strange translated name i had the best

oyakodon in kamakura with esther and that was amazing and then i the the cherry on top to that trip was that on the way out like on my last day even before i head to the airport there was a pingu do you know pingu that cute clay penguin that does the boop boop like yeah yeah There was a Pingu exhibit.

Oh, that's cute.

I don't even remember where it was anyway.

Was it Ginza? I don't know.

Yorakucho.

Anyway, I met up with Akane, and then we went, CY's wife, and we went together to see the Pingu's.

That's cute.

I got a little bored of Rupert.

Pingu was another one I didn't care for.

Well, try a little bit harder, Rupert and Pingu, but...

If you're

ever making breakfast and your kids are in the living room watching some show and you're thinking to yourself, I can't believe the shows are this loud.