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Radio London,08 Apr 2026,23 mins

Novelist & Traitors contestant Harriet Tyce: ‘It was so transgressive!’

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Harriet Tyce was born and educated in Edinburgh, but has called London home for more than 30 years. She graduated from Oxford University with a degree in English Literature, before working as a criminal barrister for nearly a decade. In 2017 she decided to leave lawyering behind and embark on a career as a novelist. She studied for an MA in Creative Writing, specialising in Crime Fiction, and her debut Blood Orange was published in 2019. It was a Sunday Times bestseller. Since then, she’s penned four more novels. The most recent, Witch Trial, was published February. Many of you will better know Harriet as a standout contestant on Series 4 of The Traitors, where her outspoken approach earned her initial success and adulation, but also precipitated her downfall. She was banished just past the half way point. Harret Tyce reveals her favourite haunts, memories, pet hates and everything in between with Robert Elms.

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