Kae Tempest
speaker
343 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 7 May
Kae Tempest’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 2 in all, peaking in May 2026 with 1.
Appearances
You don't even need to have read the books to join in.
It will be a really interesting, wide-ranging conversation and maybe you'll want to read the book afterwards.
Thank you for reading with us.
We like reading with you.
This week's book guest is Having Spent Life Seeking by Kay Tempest.
Count us in.
Yeah, I'm not sure about that.
That's what I think the weird thing about promoting something you've written is because you've spent lots and lots of time with it and someone else, and this is like your life now, but like someone else...
has just been like, but basically given a fact sheet about this.
All they've got to go on is your career and the title.
And that's the first thing you have to justify.
And you're like, if it was that easy, I'd have done a tweet, I think, rather than, you know, written an entire novel.
I wanted to ask you, Kay, about writing.
When you started writing, when did words become your favourite form of communication?
You didn't find them, no one introduced them, they were just always there.
So that's amazing in terms of like your DNA as a creative person, the fact that it's sort of rhyming and morality and went to dark places.
There you go.
That's what happened.
You've got to be very careful what you do with kids.
Don't you think?
Showing 1–20 of 343 · page 1 of 18
Next →