Why Are You More Successful Than Me? with Richard Bacon
Aug 6, 2026 · 33 min · 18 segments
Why Is Matt Haig More Successful Than Richard? On this week’s episode, Part 1, one of the biggest fiction writers in the world today talks to Richard about the worrying rise of AI, online bullies from…
Matt HaigGuest
Richard BaconHost
I live in Primrose Hill and there's a plaque to Sylvia Plath quite near my house, and one street away there's a plaque to, to Yeats, the poet, and she, and I started reading about her and she moved into Yeats' house because it had the plaque on with his name on it.
And she like, "Well, I just wanna, I wanna live in Yeats' house." So she bought it and she moved into it, and she put her head in the oven in that house and killed herself.
And so I was reading about it and basically what happened was she was approached by that society, whatever they're called, that put the blue plaques up.
And they contacted her family and they said, "Wait, which one of the two then? They're literally a street apart.
Do you want the blue plaque on?" And her family said, "That was the house where she died, but the other is the house where she lived."
I live in Primrose Hill and there's a plaque to Sylvia Plath quite near my house, and one street away there's a plaque to, to Yeats, the poet, and she, and I started reading about her and she moved into Yeats' house because it had the plaque on with his name on it.
And she like, "Well, I just wanna, I wanna live in Yeats' house." So she bought it and she moved into it, and she put her head in the oven in that house and killed herself.
And so I was reading about it and basically what happened was she was approached by that society, whatever they're called, that put the blue plaques up.
And they contacted her family and they said, "Wait, which one of the two then? They're literally a street apart.
Do you want the blue plaque on?" And her family said, "That was the house where she died, but the other is the house where she lived."
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