Laura Jane Williams, Author

Desert Island Dishes

Food, Arts, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.8 • 780 Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2017

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Margie's castaway this week is the author Laura Jane Williams.

Laura has written two books, she runs a successful blog, she was Grazia’s weekly dating columnist and her writing has been published in every publication imaginable.

I wanted to talk to her about becoming an author, what its like to write a memoir and to write a weekly column all about your love life. Whilst Laura doesnt write specifically about food – the little snippets where she does – I could sense there was a passion there which we talk about.

Laura definitely sounds like she knows how to host an excellent lunch party and she's so fun – you know you would have the best time. The last dish Laura would choose before being cast off to the desert island was very romantic...contrary to how I reacted on hearing it!

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Until next time bye and thanks for listening.

Margie x

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0:00.0	Hi, it's Margie and welcome back to Desert Island Dishes.
0:07.8	My castaway this week is the author Laura Jane Williams.
0:12.0	Laura has written two books.
0:14.0	She runs a successful blog.
0:16.0	She was Grazie's weekly dating columnist and her writing has been published in every publication imaginable.
0:22.9	I wanted to talk to her about becoming an author, what it's like to write a memoir and to write a
0:28.2	weekly column all about your love life. Whilst Laura doesn't write specifically about food,
0:33.8	the little snippets where she does, I could sense there was a passion there which we could talk about.
0:38.9	Laura has travelled all over the world, but it's the Italian cuisine she fell in love with,
0:43.4	and I hope you enjoy hearing her Desert Island dishes.
0:49.8	Hi, Laura. Welcome to Desert Island Dishes.
0:53.3	Thank you for having me. Hello. Hi. I just wanted to start by
0:57.9	asking you, is being a writer what you always wanted to do? So what, just straight for the chuggler.
1:04.2	No small talk. Just talk. Well, that's always your hope and your dream and your aspiration.
1:09.5	I'll talk about my relationship with my parents and my grandparents in a minute.
1:13.8	Is being right what I always wanted to do?
1:15.6	Yes.
1:16.1	And then I forgot for a bit.
1:17.8	Yeah.
1:18.2	And then I feel like it took a lot to come back to it.
1:21.7	And then it was a case of like, oh, of course.
1:24.4	I've been this way my whole life. You know, I remember jabbing a story I had written
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