Sebastian Faulks

Full Disclosure with James O'Brien

Global

Society & Culture

4.6 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Novelist Sebastian Faulks has the rare quality of being both literary and popular. He’s best known for his historical novels set in France, and in particular, Birdsong, adapted for the screen and starring Eddie Redmayne. Now for the first time Faulks has ventured into the future - but not very far - setting his latest novel from 2030, beginning with an experiment at an IVF clinic which challenges ethical boundaries. His 16th novel, The Seventh Son is out now.

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0:56.0	Thank you. Nice to be here. Well, thank you. I should. people than would ever be allowed or endurable on the radio show. Sebastian Falks, welcome.
1:02.1	Thank you. Nice to be here. Well, thank you. I should start by, I don't know, whining a bit and moaning.
1:08.0	Because as I researched this interview, I realized that before you became a famous author,
1:13.5	you had managed to secure precisely the career that I wanted when I first tried to get into journalism.
1:18.2	You did, because I did a little bit on the diaries, but then you moved into literary journalism.
1:22.6	I ended up showbusiness with a Daily Express, which was a million miles from where I wanted to be.
1:26.3	But you pulled off the dream. You got that lovely little... It's all luck, isn't it?
1:27.3	Yes. I hope so. I hope so. You got that lovely little... It's all luck, isn't it? Yes.
1:27.9	It's all luck.
1:28.9	I hope so.
1:29.5	You could say that.
1:30.2	No, it's all luck.
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