Jun 6, 2026 · 15 min · 12 segments
Maggie O'Farrell was born in Northern Ireland in 1972. Keen to move away from The Troubles, her father took a job at the University of Wales and the family moved to Bridgend when Maggie was a child…
Stephen SmithHostRachel LyshonGuest
Victoria HobbsGuest
Suzy FayeGuest
Bea CarvalhoGuest
Chloé ZhaoGuest
Liza MarshallGuest
We present a profile of bestselling author, Maggie O'Farrell, the woman responsible for Hamnet.
The animal inside her flexes itself restlessly, starts to scrape at her innards with its needle and claws.
BBC data scraping reveals that most of you are second screening while this program's on.
But today's an opportunity to immerse ourselves in language, writing, some quality prose courtesy of Ms. O'Farrell, whose new novel, Land, is published this week.
She felt like a very complete person who had everything in place and extremely un-needy.
You just got the impression that there were lots of chaps who had been smitten and were still smitten, and she would only have to crook her little finger.
We present a profile of bestselling author, Maggie O'Farrell, the woman responsible for Hamnet.
The animal inside her flexes itself restlessly, starts to scrape at her innards with its needle and claws.
BBC data scraping reveals that most of you are second screening while this program's on.
But today's an opportunity to immerse ourselves in language, writing, some quality prose courtesy of Ms. O'Farrell, whose new novel, Land, is published this week.
She felt like a very complete person who had everything in place and extremely un-needy.
You just got the impression that there were lots of chaps who had been smitten and were still smitten, and she would only have to crook her little finger.
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