Apostrophe
The novel Slow Horses by Mick Herron tells the story of a team of disgraced MI5 agents assigned to a bureaucratic dumping ground known as Slough House. They’re, by all accounts, failures – demoted from top tier intelligence to basement busy work. That is, until a kidnapping case lands squarely on their dusty desks – thrusting the slow horses into fast paced espionage.
The irony? That book was rejected. For seven years. Then it was pitched as a television series – and rejected by multiple networks.
To quote Slough House loser-in-chief Jackson Lamb: “They’re losers. But they’re my losers.”
Hope you’ll join us.
Major sources for this episode include:
The New Yorker: Is Mick Herron the Best Spy Novelist of His Generation?
The Guardian: Mick Herron: ‘Most people didn’t know I was writing – I was a secretive kind of writer’
Podcast – The Watch: Trouble at Netflix, ‘Under the Banner of Heaven,’ ‘We Own This City,’ and ‘Slow Horses’ Author Mick Herron
The Globe and Mail: As Mick Herron’s Slough House spy novel series turns 15, he says he never expected it to succeed
The Guardian: Author Mick Herron: ‘I’d have made an awful spy. I don’t have a smartphone or wifi’
RTE: “If I had pitched it, I think it would’ve been turned down flat.” Author Mick Herron on his new Slow Horses novel.
BBC: Slow Horses: The anti-James Bond that gets to the heart of Britishness
Television Academy: Slow Horses Showrunner on Not Being Afraid to Kill Characters
Variety: BBC Passed on ‘Slow Horses,’ Apple TV+ Europe Boss Reveals as She Pays Tribute to U.K. Screen Sector: ‘You Have to Take Risks’
The Guardian: Mick Herron: ‘I’m interested in incompetence, things going wrong’
The Guardian: Slow Horses author Mick Herron: ‘I love doing things that are against the rules’
Mickherronbooks.com: Horrified, but not surprised – Seeing into the future with Slough House series author Mick Herron.
Writer & Host: Sidney Hirst-O’Reilly
Executive Producer & Co-Host: Terry O’Reilly
Researcher & Series Producer: Allison Pinches
Director: Callie O’Reilly
Supervising Producer: Debbie O’Reilly
Engineer: Geoff Devine
Theme music: Casey Pick, Jeremiah Pick & James Atin
Tunes: APM Music
The novel Slow Horses by Mick Herron tells the story of a team of disgraced MI5 agents assigned to a bureaucratic dumping ground known as Slough House. They’re, by all accounts, failures – demoted from top tier intelligence to basement busy work. That is, until a kidnapping case lands squarely on their dusty desks – thrusting the slow horses into fast paced espionage.
The irony? That book was rejected. For seven years. Then it was pitched as a television series – and rejected by multiple networks.
To quote Slough House loser-in-chief Jackson Lamb: “They’re losers. But they’re my losers.”
Hope you’ll join us.
Major sources for this episode include:
The New Yorker: Is Mick Herron the Best Spy Novelist of His Generation?
The Guardian: Mick Herron: ‘Most people didn’t know I was writing – I was a secretive kind of writer’
Podcast – The Watch: Trouble at Netflix, ‘Under the Banner of Heaven,’ ‘We Own This City,’ and ‘Slow Horses’ Author Mick Herron
The Globe and Mail: As Mick Herron’s Slough House spy novel series turns 15, he says he never expected it to succeed
The Guardian: Author Mick Herron: ‘I’d have made an awful spy. I don’t have a smartphone or wifi’
RTE: “If I had pitched it, I think it would’ve been turned down flat.” Author Mick Herron on his new Slow Horses novel.
BBC: Slow Horses: The anti-James Bond that gets to the heart of Britishness
Television Academy: Slow Horses Showrunner on Not Being Afraid to Kill Characters
Variety: BBC Passed on ‘Slow Horses,’ Apple TV+ Europe Boss Reveals as She Pays Tribute to U.K. Screen Sector: ‘You Have to Take Risks’
The Guardian: Mick Herron: ‘I’m interested in incompetence, things going wrong’
The Guardian: Slow Horses author Mick Herron: ‘I love doing things that are against the rules’
Mickherronbooks.com: Horrified, but not surprised – Seeing into the future with Slough House series author Mick Herron.
Writer & Host: Sidney Hirst-O’Reilly
Executive Producer & Co-Host: Terry O’Reilly
Researcher & Series Producer: Allison Pinches
Director: Callie O’Reilly
Supervising Producer: Debbie O’Reilly
Engineer: Geoff Devine
Theme music: Casey Pick, Jeremiah Pick & James Atin
Tunes: APM Music