James Meek

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486 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 15 Jun

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London Review Bookshop Podcast · James Meek & Lara Pawson: Your Life Without Me · 15 Jun 2026 podcast

In that snobbish way.

Even though people obviously by that time would have had whole lives there and it would have been very dear to them.

And I was driving through or going through on a bus or something and I thought, actually, this is nice.

This works.

This fits in.

This is the new vernacular.

This is the, I don't know, the Elizabethan of our era.

So, yeah, comfort won out on that occasion.

Absolutely, yes.

I mean, you see on my face the look of a man who's trying to think, should I pretend that I have read The Secret Agent or should I admit that I haven't?

But it's about the attempt or the demolition of the Greenwich...

Meridian?

Meridian, yes.

Yes, yes, yes.

Well, I mean, there is something, I suppose, very anarchist about what Raph does.

Yes.

I don't think Conrad related it quite so specifically to the generations.

I don't, but...

I mean there's certainly a similarity in this sense of the kind of the national, the common feeling about a wound to the kind of the psychic representation of the place that you live in.

Even if you don't know St Paul's or the Grand Meridian well, everyone understands that it's not just knocking down a building, it's unsettling everybody.

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