James Meek
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486 appearances
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 15 Jun
James Meek’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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London Review Bookshop Podcast · James Meek & Lara Pawson: Your Life Without Me · 15 Jun 2026
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He does.
And he worries then that this specific comment, naming the cathedral, he remembers it and he worries that the police will then, that Raph will have told the police about this.
Well, I mean, yeah, I suppose that is a little bit of a spoiler in the book.
That does come out later on.
Sorry.
No, it's all right, it's all right.
I think we do underestimate the power of our words to influence people.
I think, you know, when you get older and you look back on your life, you can probably think of some moments and perhaps people come up to you and they'll say, I always remember that thing you told me.
And you think, shit, that was just a casual throwaway remark.
When I lived in Moscow, my then wife had a friend
whose father used to visit.
He lived in Kiev and used to come up on the train and liked a lot of sort of unambitious, kind of penny-pinching small bureaucrats in those days.
They had this thing.
It's a long way from Kiev to Moscow.
It's about 500 miles.
Normally, you get given money by your
organization to take the night train.
But what he does was he would buy lots and lots of tickets on the little local trains go from one bit of the journey and then the next bit of the journey and the next bit of the journey.
It took him ages.
It was terrible.
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