A Very Special Episode: Interview with Tana French

All About Agatha Christie

Catherine Brobeck & Kemper Donovan

Tv & Film, Film Reviews, Books, Arts

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2020

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

We are both HUGE Tana French fans, so we suspect many of you are too. This interview was a joy to record; we hope you enjoy it half as much as we did. And if you haven't yet bought Tana's latest book, The Searcher, or any of the titles mentioned in our conversation, we encourage you to check out https://bookshop.org/, which is a safe and streamlined way to buy books online from independent bookstores in both the U.S. and UK. Happy reading!

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0:00.0	David Mitchell, six comedians, one fiendishly difficult contest of survival.
0:06.0	Mostly in the sense that I'm quite a difficult person to please.
0:09.0	Will they die? They won't die.
0:11.0	Will they thrive?
0:12.0	It's not set the bar too high.
0:14.0	How about just maintain their dignity?
0:15.0	With nothing but their own wits to protect them.
0:18.0	Besides the army of medical professionals on set.
0:20.0	It's survival of the funniest.
0:22.0	I see what we've done there. David Mitchell. It's
0:25.0	outside of the funniest. I see what we've done there.
0:24.0	David Mitchell's Outsiders.
0:26.0	Tonight at 10 on Dave and UK TV Play. Welcome to All About Agatha, the podcast dedicated to reading and ranking every single mystery novel written by The Queen of Crime, Dame Agatha Christie. I'm Catherine Brobeck.
0:44.8	I'm Camper Donovan.
0:46.0	And this week, while we are definitely talking about Agatha,
0:50.9	we are talking about it with a very special guest.
0:55.0	Who might that be, Camper?
0:56.6	That would be one, Tana French.
0:59.4	We've been wanting to have her on for a long time, long time listeners know that she's one of both of our favorite
1:07.2	novelists and I say that across any kind of genre distinction. She also has been, like many of us, reading a lot of
1:17.1	Christie in quarantine. So I think had some very interesting things to say about that and of course we talked at great
1:23.4	length about her work and her newest novel the searcher which came out in the
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