Historical Novels with Ken Follett

Dan Snow's History Hit

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4.7 • 13.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Today, I am joined by best-selling author Ken Follett to discuss his latest book The Evening and the Morning. We also talk about his love of history and the historical research involved with writing one of his novels, his method and how authors have to sometimes use creative license to fill in some of the underwear shaped gaps left in the historical record. This episode was recorded before the US election last year and Ken, a former journalist, also touches on his concerns for his previous occupation with the proliferation of fake news.

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0:12.7	Let's do it.
0:13.7	I am going to Normandy between the second and the sixth of June this year, which is the
0:18.6	anniversary of D-Day, obviously.
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0:34.2	Hi everybody.
0:37.7	Welcome to Dan Snow's History.
0:39.5	Now you know that from time to time I like to get a novelist on the podcast.
0:43.8	Someone who's not exactly a historian but spends a lot of time reading and certainly writing
0:47.3	about history of sorts.
0:48.6	We've had Bernad-Cormon on recently, again, listen to that one.
0:51.9	And this is in a similar vein.
0:53.2	We've got another best selling author.
0:56.1	He sold 170 million copies.
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