What happens when one of Britain’s bestselling crime writers hands over 25 years of Amazon history?
My Mate Bought A ToasterShow Notes
This week on My Mate Bought A Toaster, Tom rifles through the online shopping history of bestselling author and The Traitors star Harriet Tyce… and uncovers everything from cutting-edge MP3 players to Baby Mozart DVDs, dinner party cookbooks, rowing gloves, weighted blankets and even the book she accidentally bought… that she wrote herself.
Along the way Harriet opens up about life as a criminal barrister, the crippling nerves she battled in court, the moment she realised she wanted to become a novelist, why Blood Orange changed everything, and what really happened behind the scenes on The Traitors.
There are stories about illegal MP3 downloads, disastrous dinner parties, parenting fads we all fell for, lockdown puzzles, marathon misery, moonwalking in a Wonderbra, and why she still can’t quite believe her entire life has been preserved in Amazon order history since 2001. It's quite literally ALL HERE UNDER ONE PODCAST ROOF GUYS!
As ever we root around and find laughs, truths and a spot of the surprisingly moving… and occasionally things do get quite forensic.
Products we dig into include (roughly in order):
2001 – Intel Pocket Concert MP3 Player 2002 – Toshiba DVD Player 2002 – The Matrix DVD 2002 – The Lord of the Rings DVD 2002 – Gladiator DVD 2002 – Monsters, Inc. DVD 2003 – Entertaining cookbook by Victoria Blashford-Snell 2004 – Baby Beethoven / Baby Van Gogh / Baby Mozart DVDs 2004 – Children’s vegetarian recipe books 2004 – Finger food book for babies & toddlers 2004 – Brain games for babies 2004 – Black & Decker drill 2007 – Nigel Slater’s The Kitchen Diaries / Express-style recipe books 2007 – The Fussy Eaters’ Recipe Book 2007 – Preserved (home preserving cookbook) 2007 – Christopher Hitchens’ God Is Not Great 2009 – The French Laundry Cookbook 2014 – I Hate Literary Agents (guide to getting published) 2019/2020 – Saving Missy by Beth Morrey 2020 – Pink rowing gloves 2020 – Thames Path walking guide 2020 – 11kg weighted blanket 2020 – Harriet’s own novel, Blood Orange 2020 – Jigsaw puzzles (lockdown purchases) Recent years – Poetry collections Got a question or a story from your own online shopping history? 📧 Email us: [email protected]
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