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Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast (RHLSTP)

RHLSTP Book Club 177 - Harriet Tyce

Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast (RHLSTP)

British Comedy Guide

Tv & Film, Arts, Comedy, Performing Arts

4.75.8K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2026

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

RHLSTP Book Club #177 - Witch Trial - Rich talks to best selling author and brilliant and terrifying Traitors contestant Harriet Tyce about her phenomenal fifth novel, Witch Trial. Obviously there’s a bit of Traitors chat as they discuss the decision to go in and whether it’s helped with book sales, but mainly we’re looking at the effect of taking an MA in creative writing and why it might help you write a best selling novel, Harriet’s decision not to put out her second novel (or her earlier work that I would really like to see), the inspiration for Witch Trial, the real spooky stuff in Edinburgh that you can see in the National Museum, writing from the male perspective, the incredible ending of this book which we can’t really discuss but that I doubt you’ll guess, creating an atmosphere with two short early chapters and when in the process she wrote these and the possibility of a sequel. Plus Harriet does a Lee and Herring reference, almost like she’s as excited to meet me as I am to meet her.


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0:00.0

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0:05.8

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0:10.7

tickets left. It is Natasha Hodgson, one of the geniuses behind the fantastic Operation

0:16.6

Mincemeat musical and much, much more as well. And Michelle Wolfe one of the greatest stand-ups in the

0:22.7

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0:26.8

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0:32.0

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0:39.9

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0:45.7

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0:51.7

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0:57.5

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1:04.0

hello welcome to another rahalasdpah book club i'm very relaxed in this chair. It's nice. It was a different chair than you. I might just have a little sleep during this one. This week I've been reading. Well, I hope you can talk. I've been reading Witch Trial by Harriet Tice. And I'm joined by Harriet now. Hello. Hi, hello. Love to see you, Harriet. I mean, people may recognise you more than they baby did in the past. No, no, no, can't think. I refuse to accept that. I was very well known anyway. Well, you were, you know, you were a best-selling author before Traitors. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But I guess that it's come now with people.

1:45.2

A lot of authors, we, you know, we don't have a clue what people look like. No, I mean, before I went on, because I had this idea of a backstory, I thought, you know, if I sort of went leaping in saying I'm a crime writer, it wouldn't be very good for my longevity. And so I checked on chat GPT what the odds were of me being

2:03.2

recognised by 21 members of the British public. You know, the best selling author Harriet

2:08.8

Ty's and it was not complimentary at all. And yeah, sure enough, no one had a clue, which was a good

2:15.7

thing. You know, you don't want to be uncovered lying there but yes I think that the the face recognition has gone up but

2:24.1

you know now the show's over and we're still moving on I think this it's I've moved my

2:28.8

passing fractionally to the side and the hope that that puts people off you know well it's a

2:33.0

very interesting trait as well and any of those reality shows people off, you know. Well, it's a very interesting thing, traitors, and any of those reality shows, I think, because, you know, for a couple of months, you're the most famous people in the country, like insane level. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I see, I follow a few of the people from your crew on Instagram, and, you know, they're still going to parties and stuff now, but there will come a point where there's a new series of

2:51.2

contractors. Oh yeah, no one's going to. The wheel keeps turning. The wheel keeps turning.

2:55.8

No, and I would say I've been invited to those parties too, most, some of them. Some of them.

3:02.9

No, it's a curious thing. Well, I do this. I mean, I watch Love Island and married at first sight,

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