Marie Phillips

Author of the novel Gods Behaving Badly, soon to be a film starring Christopher Walken and Sharon Stone. Writer, with Robert Hudson, of BBC Radio 4 series Warhorses of Letters, starring Stephen Fry and Daniel Rigby. Co-host of the Firestation Book Swap in Windsor. Writer in residence at Ackland Burghley school, London.
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Giddy up! It’s nearly Warhorses of Letters time! On Tuesday, this coming Tuesday, this actual Tuesday, at 11pm on BBC Radio 4 you will be able to hear the first episode of our series Warhorses of Letters, which I have not banged on about yet, oh wait, yes I have. It stars Stephen Fry and Daniel Rigby, and was written by Robert Hudson and me. You can see us all in the photo above. (It also has a smidge of Tamsin Greig in it, but she wasn’t there that day.) Stephen plays Marengo, Napoleon’s warhorse, and Daniel plays Copenhagen, who, in episode one, is a British racehorse. “But it’s called Warhorses of Letters,” I hear you cry, “and Warhorses is in the plural. Why, when there is clearly only ONE warhorse?” THERE IS ONLY ONE WAY TO FIND OUT. (There is more than one way to find out. You could ask me. Or look Copenhagen up in a book.) Anyway, the horses write letters to each other and it doesn’t take long for them to fall in love. But they’re caught on either side of the Napoleonic wars. WHAT WILL HAPPEN!? THERE IS ONLY ONE WAY TO FIND OUT. Actually there isn’t only one way to find out. Because we also have a book. Behold the website for the book! www.warhorsesofletters.com If you’re in two minds about beholding, I’ll mention that there is a video on the website of Robbie and me talking in a very learned fashion about the book. When I showed it to the people in my office, they said, “that bloke standing next to you is very funny”. The book would make a perfect Christmas gift for anyone who likes horses or gay sex or Stephen Fry or books, or any combination of the above. (It is OK for me to mention Christmas because I received my John Lewis Christmas Catalogue yesterday so the season is officially OPEN.) So, to summarise: Warhorses of Letters, on BBC Radio 4, from Tuesday 25th October at 11pm for four weeks (not continuously, you are allowed to listen to other things in between), also on BBC Listen Again and iPlayer for the non-UK-resident / early-to-bedder, eventually available on download, and poised to be a book. Enjoy!

Giddy up! It’s nearly Warhorses of Letters time!

On Tuesday, this coming Tuesday, this actual Tuesday, at 11pm on BBC Radio 4 you will be able to hear the first episode of our series Warhorses of Letters, which I have not banged on about yet, oh wait, yes I have. It stars Stephen Fry and Daniel Rigby, and was written by Robert Hudson and me. You can see us all in the photo above. (It also has a smidge of Tamsin Greig in it, but she wasn’t there that day.) Stephen plays Marengo, Napoleon’s warhorse, and Daniel plays Copenhagen, who, in episode one, is a British racehorse. “But it’s called Warhorses of Letters,” I hear you cry, “and Warhorses is in the plural. Why, when there is clearly only ONE warhorse?” THERE IS ONLY ONE WAY TO FIND OUT. (There is more than one way to find out. You could ask me. Or look Copenhagen up in a book.) Anyway, the horses write letters to each other and it doesn’t take long for them to fall in love. But they’re caught on either side of the Napoleonic wars. WHAT WILL HAPPEN!? THERE IS ONLY ONE WAY TO FIND OUT.

Actually there isn’t only one way to find out. Because we also have a book. Behold the website for the book!

www.warhorsesofletters.com

If you’re in two minds about beholding, I’ll mention that there is a video on the website of Robbie and me talking in a very learned fashion about the book. When I showed it to the people in my office, they said, “that bloke standing next to you is very funny”. The book would make a perfect Christmas gift for anyone who likes horses or gay sex or Stephen Fry or books, or any combination of the above. (It is OK for me to mention Christmas because I received my John Lewis Christmas Catalogue yesterday so the season is officially OPEN.)

So, to summarise: Warhorses of Letters, on BBC Radio 4, from Tuesday 25th October at 11pm for four weeks (not continuously, you are allowed to listen to other things in between), also on BBC Listen Again and iPlayer for the non-UK-resident / early-to-bedder, eventually available on download, and poised to be a book. Enjoy!

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