The Rowling Library Magazine - August 2021
THE NOTEBOOKS FROM THE ATTIC
J.K. ROWLING TALKS ABOUT HER VERY FIRST SCRIBBLED NOTEBOOKS IN A NEW INTERVIEW ON BBC RADIO 4. On the morning of July 24th, fans of J.K. Rowling woke up to good news: the return of the author to a radio show as a guest of “The Poet Laureate Has Gone to His Shed”, Simon Armitage’s show on BBC Radio 4. The last time J.K. Rowling went live on radio was with Graham Norton on November 14th, 2020, on BBC
Radio 2. With Norton, Rowling talked mostly about her latest books, Troubled Blood and The Ickabog, while the premise for this new interview was to discuss her own experience as a writer, and even show, for the first time, her very first notebooks (and their secrets!) to Simon Armitage. On the next pages are some of the most interesting parts of the interview. Remember you can listen to the whole interview on our YouTube channel.
