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#16 - Rachel Joyce - Claim Your Space
In this episode, I’m talking to Rachel Joyce - an award-winning novelist and playwright. Over the course of a 20-year career as an actor, performing leading roles for the RSC, National Theatre and Cheek by Jowl, she was always writing. Alongside radio drama, she also wrote the Sunday Times and international bestsellers, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry and The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy. Her latest novel, Maureen Fry and the Angel of the North completes the trilogy. Rachel is also the author of the bestsellers, Perfect, The Music Shop and Miss Benson’s Beetle.
Her books have sold over 5 million copies worldwide and have been translated into thirty-six languages.
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Prize, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and is now a major film - for which Rachel wrote the screenplay - starring Jim Broadbent and Penelope Wilton, due for release in April 2023,
In this conversation she shares:
Outline📍
00:00 Intro
02:30 When do you first remember experiencing pressure?
04:54 What did you do with that extreme sensation?
09:15 Why did you go from writing to acting?
11:50 On-stage connection and confidence in front of an audience
17:06 Insight 1: Lessons learned
18:26 Shifting the sense of power to its source
21:35 The Rachel costume
27:16 Social media
29:48 Did you feel more pressure in the process of turning your book into a film?
34:05 Wearing a metaphoric protective layer
36:24 Insight 2: Lessons learned
37:25 Pay forward advice from Rachel on how to better be better under pressure
40:40 Outro
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By Sara Milne RoweIn this episode, I’m talking to Rachel Joyce - an award-winning novelist and playwright. Over the course of a 20-year career as an actor, performing leading roles for the RSC, National Theatre and Cheek by Jowl, she was always writing. Alongside radio drama, she also wrote the Sunday Times and international bestsellers, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry and The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy. Her latest novel, Maureen Fry and the Angel of the North completes the trilogy. Rachel is also the author of the bestsellers, Perfect, The Music Shop and Miss Benson’s Beetle.
Her books have sold over 5 million copies worldwide and have been translated into thirty-six languages.
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Prize, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and is now a major film - for which Rachel wrote the screenplay - starring Jim Broadbent and Penelope Wilton, due for release in April 2023,
In this conversation she shares:
Outline📍
00:00 Intro
02:30 When do you first remember experiencing pressure?
04:54 What did you do with that extreme sensation?
09:15 Why did you go from writing to acting?
11:50 On-stage connection and confidence in front of an audience
17:06 Insight 1: Lessons learned
18:26 Shifting the sense of power to its source
21:35 The Rachel costume
27:16 Social media
29:48 Did you feel more pressure in the process of turning your book into a film?
34:05 Wearing a metaphoric protective layer
36:24 Insight 2: Lessons learned
37:25 Pay forward advice from Rachel on how to better be better under pressure
40:40 Outro