Richard Osman was born in Essex in 1970 and is a host on quiz shows including Pointless, which he created. His first book, The Thursday Murder Club, was the bestselling novel of 2020.
My mum singing around the house. She used to sing a song that starts, “Can you hear the H-bomb’s thunder/Echo like a crack of doom.” It’s essentially about nuclear destruction. But she was very cheerful when she sang it!
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