David Naimon
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4,074 appearances
10 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 24 Aug
David Naimon’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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My wife's great-grandmother is from Argentina because part of her family escaped a horrible famine.
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in part of France ruled by the Kingdom of Sardinia in the nineteenth century.
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I want to ask about this inversion of allegiance in ancient texts and/or your indictment of the modern xenophobic attitude to immigrants by people who themselves in other eras have greatly benefited from being taken in.
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But I'm gonna push that into the final question, not this one.
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Before we talk about that, I want to first talk about the mosaic tile that the great-grandmother stole.
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A tile from
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from one of the m most amazing sites of mosaics that I've ever visited.
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A tile, the daughter wants to return, but the notion of return and what that might entail changes as the book progresses.
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And that's not something I'm gonna spoil.
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But in relation to this tile, I think of a line in the book.
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If you are born a tuna fish, you can't die a swordfish.
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Because the tile they have is of the god Proteus, who would disagree with this saying, not only because he is the god shepherd of the sea beasts, but because he's a shapeshifting god.
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And you said in one interview that you first discovered this god reading the book Dart by past guest of this show Alice Oswald.
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I feel like your books are very Protean.
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Generally speaking, this book could be seen as a road novel, a novel about writing, a family drama, climate fiction, a feminist retelling of classical mythology.
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Maybe a field guide for the apocalypse.
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But talk to us about Proteus.
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Why Proteus on the tile?
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And what is the influence of Proteus on the book and the story?
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I also think of the first time Mary Rufel came on the show, she said something like, I'd rather wonder than know.
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