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

And I suppose this is what Raf

wanted to not just unsettle people, to make them ask the question.

I mean, he says this explicitly.

The question is, you know, not what was his idea when he blew it up, but what was your idea when it was built?

And what are you going to do now?

I suppose that is always the anarchist question, I imagine.

No, no.

But they're the ones with the bombs.

You mean when you hear people talking, you say, yes, I see it.

Yes, yes.

Thank you for that.

I mean, she does explicitly, I think, say at one point that she can now

be her mother, and her mother is dead, so she is silent.

So she too can be silent.

That's something that she can do just as well as her mother now.

But in a way, I mean, you know, she is the opposite of somebody who tries to win.

But in a way, you know, if you want to look at it that way, she does kind of, she does sort of win, I think, overall, because she doesn't say all that much, but when she does, she's very, very pithy and clear.

And there's a kind of,

I feel there is an opening out as the book goes on and you get more of an idea of where she's coming from.

And I'm quite happy with the length this book is, but I mean, one of the kind of the directions I could have gone in of writing more would be to have...

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