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Simon Mayo's Books of the Year

Charlie Connelly - Last Train To Hilversum

Simon Mayo's Books of the Year

Bauer Media

Arts, Books

4.9994 Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2019

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Charlie Connelly is a bestselling author and award-winning broadcaster. His many books include Attention All Shipping: A Journey Round The Shipping Forecast, In Search of Elvis: A Journey To Find The Man Beneath The Jumpsuit and Our Man In Hibernia: Ireland, The Irish And Me. Three of his books have featured as Radio 4′s Book of the Week. His book Gilbert: The Last Years of WG Grace was shortlisted for the 2016 MCC/Cricket Society Book of the Year. The book he wrote with his friend Bernard Sumner, Chapter And Verse: New Order, Joy Division And Me was shortlisted for Book of the Year at the NME Awards, while his most recent co-writing project, Winner: A Racing Life with the champion jockey AP McCoy is shortlisted for Sports Autobiography of the Year. His latest solo effort is a love letter to UK radio - Last Train To Hilversum. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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0:00.0

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0:06.6

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0:09.7

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0:49.0

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0:52.2

That's indeed dot com.com slash BOT Y terms and conditions apply. Need to hire. You need

0:58.9

indeed. Welcome to another Books of the Year podcast. I'm Simon Mayo.

1:10.7

I'm Matt Williams. Oh right, so you're actually here this time. I am here this I am I am

1:14.8

conscious at the last time I was on here I was on the hands free on the M1 going

1:18.4

through the roadworks so yes and here's the thing I listened obviously to both of those all the podcasts

1:25.2

have come out since then and they were all far too good and that didn't do

1:29.6

anything for my ego at all so I decided why I better be in the studio for the next one so here I am.

1:33.7

So what so where have you been?

1:36.0

I've been in my new job which I believe we might have touched on last time I was on

1:41.2

which involves the equestrian Federation lots of hilarity at people

1:48.0

asking people constantly ask me now on Twitter for tickets to Olympia.

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