Hello and welcome to Legacy. I've got a question for you. Have you ever written anything for Netflix?

That's a really specific question, Peter. And... Okay, or Amazon Prime or a streaming service.

It's not a straightforward yes or no answer, actually. Yes. Okay. How about that? I wonder if you could

bring back any writer from the past, who would be the most

prolific or the most popular writer of a big series for Netflix that rolls out all the time?

You mean if I could resurrect a historic writer to create an ongoing returning Netflix series?

That's exactly what I meant but said much better than I could have said it. Yes. Who would you choose?

I wonder if you're hinting at the fact that the person we're talking about today could be that

person. And even though she wrote novels, it's not that difficult to imagine them becoming like

seven or eight season long returning blockbusters.

You've given us already a clue that it's a woman, right?

Give us some more clues so that our listeners can guess who it is we're going to be talking about.

All right.

So Virginia Woolf said, of all great writers, she, the person we're talking about today,

is the most difficult to catch in the act of greatness.

For a great writer, she is the most perfect artist among women.

I love that quote.

It's kind of spicy.

Like it's obviously a huge compliment, but there's some like texture in the compliment.

You know what I mean?

Do you know what I'd like to do, I'd like to do Virginia Woolf with you on Legacy and talk about her? But I sort of always found out quite a tricky line. You know, of all the great writers, she's the most difficult to catch in the act of greatness. Anything you catch in the act of anything was something we were going to trouble for at school. But then Harold Bloom,

author of the Western Canon, wrote about 30 years ago, said, this woman, this writer, is the first great realist in the English novel, and her influence remains unsurpassed. That's

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