The Plague and I by Betty MacDonald
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🗓️ 10 May 2021
⏱️ 70 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | And Natasha, you work at the Science Museum. How long is it since you set foot in the |
| 0:29.6 | Science Museum? Well, actually, I was in yesterday, which is a really... Oh, well, thanks for that. |
| 0:36.5 | I had been working for mostly for the last year, but we're starting to put actually on display |
| 0:42.2 | and we're starting to prepare for opening on the 19th of May, so I am going in to do some work |
| 0:49.4 | on gallery, which is mega exciting. How exciting. Natasha, do you actually prefer going to the |
| 0:55.7 | Science Museum when no one's there? Is it really lovely? It must be. Well, it sort of turned on |
| 1:00.6 | its head to be honest, because if you work in museums, it is always a perk of the job that you get |
| 1:05.9 | to go through early in the morning or late at night and there's no one there, and it's amazing. |
| 1:10.8 | But actually, when it comes to a pandemic and we're closed a lot of the time, it's actually miserable |
| 1:16.4 | because you're doing all this work, and you want to see what people think of the exhibitions and |
| 1:22.0 | the galleries, and it's just really disappointing, but I think we all cannot wait to be open. |
| 1:27.0 | Yeah, yeah, yeah. Lister Evans, when were you lost in... Oh, no, I can't ask you about the library again, |
| 1:32.6 | because I know you practically live in a tent outside the library. I was in 0.2 of a second after |
| 1:41.2 | they owned the doors on the 8th of April, yeah. Shall we get this show on the road? |
| 1:47.7 | Hello, and welcome to Backlisted, the podcast that gives new life to old books. |
| 1:52.3 | Today, you'll find us in a sanatorium near Seattle in the late 1930s, shivering under paper blankets |
| 1:58.3 | as the wind and the rain rattle the window of the ward, and the squeaking wheel of the food trolley |
| 2:03.2 | edges closer in the bed next door. A woman begins to bark like a dog. I'm John Mitchell, |
| 2:09.9 | the publisher of Unbound, the platform where readers crowdfund the books they really want to read. |
| 2:14.6 | I'm Andy Miller, author of The Year of Reading Dangerously, and today we're joined by two guests |
| 2:19.8 | for the first time, Natasha McEnroe. Hello, Natasha. Hello, Natasha. Thank you for coming. |
| 2:26.4 | And the OG herself, teenagers everywhere, screaming in horror, I just said, the original guest. |
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