Freya puts listener questions to actor and author Hannah Murray, whose memoir The Make-Believe is out now from Penguin.
Hannah answers questions from listeners about her time on Skins β including the behind-the-scenes moment she'd most want to relive β and reflects on whether the qualities that made her a good actor, empathy and emotional availability chief among them, also made her more vulnerable to the experiences she writes about. She offers practical, hard-won advice for anyone attempting their own memoir: set strict time limits, move it off you physically, and don't rush β because no one else can tell your story the way you can. Plus, a poet friend's reframe of writing exhaustion that stopped both Hannah and Freya in their tracks.
This is a conversation about what it costs to go back β and why the only cure for creative jet lag is getting outside.
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