The Lifelong Fan (Replay)

Shedunnit

Caroline Crampton

Books, Arts

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Renée read her first detective novel in the 1930s. She hasn’t stopped since. This archive episode of Shedunnit (my personal favourite of all the ones I've ever made) was first published on 2nd September 2020. You can read Renée's obituary here. Her crime novels, The Wild Card and Blood Matters, are available from all good booksellers. Become a member of the Shedunnit Book Club and get bonus audio, listen to ad free episodes and join a book-loving community at shedunnitshow.com/bookclub. Books and sources: —These Two Hands by Renée —Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers —Wednesday to come by Renée —Setting the table by Renée —An interview with Renée from 2017 on RNZ To be the first to know about future developments with the podcast, sign up for the newsletter at shedunnitshow.com/newsletter. The podcast is on Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr and Instagram as @ShedunnitShow, and you can find it in all major podcast apps. Make sure you’re subscribed so you don’t miss the next episode. Click here to do that now in your app of choice. Find a full transcript of this episode at shedunnitshow.com/lifelongfantranscript. Music by Audioblocks and Blue Dot Sessions. See shedunnitshow.com/musiccredits for more details. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Spark your creativity with the Sims. Sometimes you might feel like you're not creative
0:06.7	and you have to go in search of your creative spark again. Maybe this is catching up with
0:11.3	creative friends, experimenting with a new look or trying out a new recipe.
0:15.7	And thanks to The Sims, inspiration is just one game and one spark away.
0:21.1	Ready to spark something? Download the Sims 4 and play for free.
0:27.0	Back in 2020, I made my favorite ever episode of She-Dannit. I also think it's one of the best installments of this podcast that I've ever put out
0:36.5	but that matters less than the fact that I just love it a lot and the reason I love
0:41.1	it is because it is built around a conversation with an extraordinary person.
0:45.0	René, a writer and playwright from New Zealand, who at the time that we recorded was 91 years old.
0:51.0	The circumstances of our conversation were less than ideal.
0:55.0	Because of the time difference between the UK and New Zealand, it was late at night for me and
0:59.3	quite early in the morning for her, and the internet connection wasn't strong enough for either of us to have the video on.
1:04.6	And yet we still formed a connection that instantly felt warm and strong
1:08.5	as if I was just catching up with an old friend, rather than speaking to a stranger on the other side of the world for the first time.
1:15.2	We loved the same books in the same way, and that mattered far more than any differences of age or place or background.
1:22.0	We massively overran our time talking together and when I finally had to say goodbye to her and be suddenly alone in a dark room in the middle of the night, I felt lonely without her.
1:31.6	Earlier in December 2023, René died peacefully at her home at the age of 94.
1:37.1	I've included a link to her obituary in the description for this episode if you'd like to learn
1:40.8	more about her, and I'm replaying our conversation now, so that more of you can get to know her.
1:45.8	Her two crime novels, The Wild Card and Blood Matters, were written recently when she was already
1:50.8	in her 90s, and I think you would like them.
1:53.2	They really are the culmination of a long lifetime spent thinking and loving the classic crime fiction
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