Lynda La Plante
5/7/20261 hr 8 min
Why is Lynda La Plante More Successful Than Richard? On this week's episode Lynda talks about her hugely successful career, starting with her years as an actor, her take on the Brontë sisters, losing the rights to her Prime Suspect characters and her new book Sacrifice which is out now.
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 10:00
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Lynda La Plante· Guest0:15
We're gonna transfer into the West End. I've made it. I've combined everything that I've been trained to do. She said, "How dare you?" And I just got my foot and punched her in the back. It's worth 250 million.
Richard Bacon· Host0:33
[upbeat music] Welcome to Why Are You More Successful Than Me? A podcast in which I talk to people about why they are more successful than me. Today it's Lynda La Plante. Mark, you produce this podcast with me. Hmm. Um, and, and you have a wrestling podcast of your own. I do, yes. Just worth mentioning. Yeah. Al- always worth mentioning. [laughs] It is. I- What is it called? It's called Wrestle Me. Yeah. I was bowled over by Lynda La Plante. By Lynda. She's wonderful, isn't she? Um, very smart, very tough. Oh. You could imagine if you, if you annoyed her at work, she'd be quite strong. Oh. Um, and the, the... what's really interesting about this conversation is the way that her early career a- as an actor, um, switched into, into writing. She had a long, long career- Hmm ... before being a writer. Um, she's 83, I think, as well. 83, and still working. Her new book is Sacrifice. Yeah. That's out right now. That is out now. I think if it's a choice between Wrestle Me and Sacrifice, I would absolutely go with Sacrifice. Yeah. I think,