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

James has not been reading about the death drive.

Yeah, I mean, I feel it's more, it's not...

Yeah, it's about the passage of time rather than death.

And in the end, you know, after much discussion and thought, St Paul's was not actually destroyed.

We decided, I decided... Yeah, why didn't you let him destroy it?

Too loud an event.

I wanted...

I wanted the possibility, at least, of this known monument.

The town, the northern town, is not named.

We don't know where it is.

No.

But we do know it's London, and we do know it's St Paul's, and we all know what St Paul's is.

We all know where it is.

And I wanted either the actual destruction or the possibility of the destruction of this real beloved monument to sort of make people's stomach flutter a little.

Did you ever think about having... But I didn't want it to be so big that it...

drowned out the story of the family, which I wanted to be just as, if not more important.

I mean, as far as Raph is concerned, I think, you know, the story is told from Mr Berman's point of view.

And he, in a sense...

You know, literally, he kind of invents Raph because he is his teacher.

Is he not?

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