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Episode #1: The Irish writer, Pat McCabe, on what it was like to see his novel The Butcher Boy get turned into a big Hollywood movie Spotify / Apple Podcasts

In 1992, Pat McCabe was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for his haunting novel, The Butcher Boy. Shortly afterwards, Hollywood came calling and his dark and bleakly funny yarn about small town Ireland was turned into a big film. Pat talks to the Editor of Boundless, Patrick Galbraith, about what it was like to see his words realised on the screen. Most of the team at Warner Bros., Pat explains, couldn't understand half of the dialogue he'd written or 'the everyday talk of rural Ireland'. A novelist might write the words but when big directors, producers, and money men come to town, that doesn't count for much.

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