Charlie and Patrick Gale (Take Nothing With You; Mother's Boy) discuss musicality - his own and his character's, setting a childhood in a care home, the beloved Cornish poet Charles Causley, and a future stage production of Take Nothing With You.
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North Cornwall Book Festival
The Penzance Orchestral Society
Steven Isserlis' tribute to Jane Cowan (cello teacher)
Weston-super-Mare
Charles Causley
The Charles Causley Trust
Work on the stage production of Take Nothing With You begins this year for performance in 2023.
Question Index
00:40 You're talking from today from your writing room - can you tell us about it?
02:43 Tell us about your farm and how your writing fits in with the routine
04:41 The use of music in Take Nothing With You is inspired by your own passion for the cello?
07:50 Would you say that Eustace is living his best life (without the cello)?
09:26 You've had a cello made?
10:29 What's your favourite piece of music to play?
11:01 Were Eustace's teachers and the cello school based on anyone, any thing?
14:43 Why did you leave a gap between Eustace's childhood and later adulthood?
17:16 The religion is both a big slice of the book and, in literal, word, terms, not so big. Why did you incorporate it in this way?
19:56 Is there any literary significance to Naomi?
21:58 Why did you set Eustace's childhood in a care home?
23:54 Eustace's state school - what was the significance of using this part of the working class?
27:52 What happened to Vernon?
29:36 [Reading]
34:22 Mother's Boy is about the poet, Charles Causley?...
36:58 You are a patron of the Charles Causley Trust?
39:31 (The upcoming theatre production of Take Nothing With You)
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Photograph used with the permission of the author. Credit: Jillian Edelstein.
