Ian Kemish
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328 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 20 Apr
Ian Kemish’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's, you know, it's the whole shooting match.
And, you know, I love that time.
I was a guy in my early 30s and I've always loved music, still do.
And it's a nice way to take people back to the time.
You know, this is not a book that's all darkness, but it's a book that does try to say, listen, you remember the 90s?
This was a time that we often think about as a time of golden innocence and, you know, the time between the fall of the wall and the coming of the jihad on September 11th.
when things were fine and the Spice Girls.
But actually, you know what?
It was also a time that saw the death of Yugoslavia.
It was also a time when the troubles in Northern Ireland peaked prior to the Good Friday Agreement.
So the experience of some was not the experience of all.
And that's part of the message of this book.
Well, what brings these places together is what I think of and I hope readers find is the central idea of the book, which is that idea of people carrying hidden histories into peaceful places.
and ultimately encountering human kindness.
That's, if there's a summary of what I'm trying to do here, it's that.
So my troubled souls, and ultimately there are two particularly, who are carrying history, at least one of them from the region we've been talking about,
Yeah, they assemble in the Hebrides in the Western Islands of Scotland.
Why there?
Well, first of all, it's my mother's country.
It's a place I love and it's a place I know very well.
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