Patrick Gale

Patrick Gale

Patrick Gale is a best-selling British novelist, Emmy-winning screenwriter and artistic director of North Cornwall Book Festival. He shares his coming out story, and reveals how his own father had been secretly gay.

Show notes

In the first episode of Season 2, novelist and Emmy award-winning screenwriter Patrick Gale shares his coming out story, and reveals how his own father had been secretly gay, a family secret hidden from him until he had left home.

Topics discussed:

  1. Patrick Gale's coming out story
  2. What it's like have closetted gay members of the family
  3. Family trauma and intergenerational trauma
  4. What drives Patrick to write
  5. Patrick's novel, 'Mother's Boy'

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This podcast is hosted by Rosie Pentreath.

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Rosie Pentreath

Rosie Pentreath

Rosie Pentreath is the founder and host of OUTcast Podcast. Rosie is a writer and content producer who’s written for Fearne Cotton's Happy Place App, Classic FM, MasterChef Australia, Gogglebox Australia, The X Factor Australia, BBC Music Magazine, Reader's Digest, Grazia, Cosmopolitan, Homes & Antiques and more.

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Patrick Gale

Patrick Gale

Patrick Gale is a British novelist, Emmy award-winning screenwriter and artistic director of North Cornwall Book Festival.

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