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Simon Mayo's Books of the Year

Ken Follett

Simon Mayo's Books of the Year

Bauer Media

Arts, Books

4.9994 Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Multi-million bestselling author, Ken Follett, joins Simon and Matt for a natter about his latest novel 'Circle Of Days'. They discuss skeletons, Stone Henge, Priestesses, the movement of the sun and stars, the origins of counting and measurements of time. Ken is meticulous with his research and shares how he approached this book, as well as how he chose the language in the novel and the technological advancements.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Have you ever wondered what a sandwich sounds like?

0:03.0

Not much to it is there?

0:06.0

Unless of course it's a Walker's sandwich.

0:10.0

Mmm, that is good.

0:13.0

Now that's what Asani should sound like.

0:16.0

Go all crisp in with walkers.

0:18.0

Delicious.

0:20.0

Delicious.

0:33.3

Hello and welcome.

0:35.6

It's your favourite books of the year podcast.

0:38.8

Well, you know, of all the books of the year podcast that we've done,

0:40.0

I'm not saying this is your favourite,

0:51.4

but of all the podcasts that you have available to you, which are about books. Yeah, I'm going to say, of all of your podcasts available, this is your favourite one. That's right. I'm just going to put it out there. All right, okay. We're going to be talking to Ken Follett very shortly.

0:53.6

Thank you for your emails.

0:55.6

This one from June Richardson.

0:55.7

Hi, lads, says June. talking to Ken Follett very shortly. Thank you for your emails. This one from June Richardson.

1:02.4

Hi, lads, says June. Hi, June. You sent a chill through my heart when you mentioned in the same sentence or two books and throw away. Oh yes. I want to give a shout out to community libraries,

1:09.3

which are sprouting up on many street corners.

1:11.5

My husband has built one on the corner of our house, and it's been an absolute hit.

1:16.1

A handful of the older generation have begun to read again because of the easy access,

1:20.4

and there is one little boy who runs ahead of his parents to look in and see if there are any books for him.

1:26.2

It is such a joy.

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