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🗓️ 12 July 2020
⏱️ 50 minutes
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0:00.0 | Do you hear that? It might sound like nothing to you, but it's actually the sound of nuclear, wind and solar energy. |
0:11.0 | At EDF, we're busy generating more British |
0:14.2 | zero carbon electricity than anyone to help keep future energy |
0:17.7 | cost down for everyone and help cut UK carbon emissions to nothing. |
0:21.8 | Sound good to you? Find out more about our |
0:24.9 | zero carbon generation at edf energy.com slash helping Britain. If you're dealing with a very famous person, one of the problems you encounter is that the reason the person is worthy of being profiled is not necessarily |
0:44.7 | because they are good at talking about what they do and that's where the writer |
0:50.6 | comes in. It's my job to make my story good. |
0:57.0 | Welcome back to working. |
1:01.0 | I'm your host, June Thomas. And I'm your other host |
1:04.8 | Isaac Butler. Isaac! Today we'll be hearing your fantastic interview with writer |
1:10.8 | Taffy Brodesser Acner whose voice we just heard. But before we get to Taffy, how are you doing this week? |
1:18.0 | June, I am happy to report that this morning I woke up an hour early with an anxiety dream about not meeting my book deadline. |
1:25.6 | So that's how I am. That's the bad news. But the good news of that happening because I remember this |
1:31.6 | from the world only spins forward is as you of that |
1:33.0 | happening, because I remember this from the world only spins forward, |
1:34.0 | as you close in on the end, your subconscious |
1:38.0 | is working harder and harder on the creative task at hand. |
1:42.0 | So I take that as just a sign that like, you know, the |
1:45.6 | nine-tenths of the brain that Douglas Adams said were filled with rooms of |
1:49.2 | penguins, are instead of being filled with penguins, filled with observations and ideas for the book about the method. |
1:55.4 | That's what I'm hoping that dream actually entails. I'm just trying to look on the bright side today. |
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