Alan Connor's Blog

This was fun. Episode one Wed 30 July.

It’s an honour!

Decision time 11 May, Royal Albert Hall.

Update 11 May: here I am with the BBC’s Caroline a short while before the award went elsewhere.

A Paddy O’Connell interview is intense. Listen from 24:15. Book is here.

Really enjoyed hearing @alanconnor.bsky.social talk about 188 WORDS FOR RAIN on Radio 4. People often trot out the dubious truism about the Inuit having umpteen words for snow to me, but it seems we Brits have cornered the market for rain!

— Ann Morgan (@annmorgan.bsky.social) 16 February 2025 at 09:36

‘A conference celebrating the parallel lives of literature and puzzles at Magdalen College, Oxford.’

Talking rain with Ian McMillan and pals. 188 Words for Rain published next week.

Ah, the joy of ⁦@R4TheVerb⁩ with ⁦@alanconnor⁩ ⁦@pascalepoet⁩ ⁦@DerynRJ⁩ ⁦@Isysuttie⁩ ! pic.twitter.com/qiNtmuV6w0

— Ian McMillan (@IMcMillan) October 24, 2024

Great fun working with Robbie again and Jonny and Georgie on this:

Series eight, still question editor:

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Travel around these islands enjoying our many kinds of rain and the words we use for them.

‘Alan knows everything, knows everyone, and writes beautifully too.’ – Richard Osman

‘I’ve always been in awe of Alan Connor: the man with the contents of the Oxford English
Dictionary stored just above his left eyebrow … and he’s quite funny too.’ – Rory Cellan-Jones

‘A gorgeous, funny tour of the British Isles as seen from the clouds.’ – Konnie Huq

Goodreads | Librarything
BBC Books, 14 Nov 2024
ISBN: 9781785948541, 320 pages, £16.99

‘ … for a Nonfiction Program’ (The Reluctant Traveler). Decision time 7 September, Peacock Theater, Los Angeles.

September update: OK, so next time.