Abigail Johnson on nineties nostalgia and millennium madness

Standard Issue Podcast

Standard Issue

Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Books are a bit like buses for author Abigail Johnson, who signed a two-book deal after taking a punt on a creative writing course during the pandemic. Fast forward a few years, and Abigail's debut novel The Secret Collector is out now. Jen catches up with Abigail to talk about loneliness, learning from our elders (and indeed youngers), and the best bug that never happened. The Secret Collector is available now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Sitting quietly once you've made the house all shiny.
0:04.0	Down time can be just fine, playing bangers from the 90s.
0:08.0	Tea break.
0:09.0	Lunch break.
0:10.0	Maybe listen to the outbreak.
0:12.0	Sometimes it's not time for some tombola, right?
0:15.0	It's enjoying lasagna time, chilling with a book time, or time to visit your nan time go on play some other time put your phone down
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1:05.8	Jen here to tell you all about today's podcast. That is after I've told you about what else is coming up
1:11.9	this week. Tomorrow, Hannah chats to playwright and historian Amy Eng about how and why
1:18.3	Madam Mao's reputation lives on and Amy's new play Shanghai Dolls. On Wednesday, we revisit
1:24.2	1995's Leon to see if we think it's rated or dated. No Bush Telegraph
1:30.0	this week because Easter, but on Friday Mick catches up with journalist Sophie Gilbert, staff
1:36.4	writer at the Atlantic to talk about her new nonfiction, Girl on Girl, how pop culture
1:41.2	turned a generation of women against themselves. You could love it when a title
1:45.2	does all the work, right? Back to today, in which I chat to author Abigail Johnson about her
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