Kae Tempest

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343 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 7 May

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Sara & Cariad's Weirdos Book Club · Having Spent Life Seeking by Kae Tempest with Kae Tempest · 7 May 2026 podcast

Yeah, of course.

That we have this pull to it, but yet it is this dangerous place.

We don't just...

And the surface level.

But being somewhere where it's cold and it's grey and it's raining, those coastal towns.

But also that's what a pub is in itself as well.

You have people having, you know, a lager top outside, you know, in such a festive, light-hearted mood and then you have addicts in the same place.

People who have to drink to stop their hands shaking, people who have to drink to get through the day.

Rothko starts their life in such a precarious position I think you write about Rothko's parents so lovingly and so empathetically but you've got two parents who choose very different tools to try and survive and then they've got two children and

And had children at a point in their life where they were still formative, and then mistakes are made, and they're not very good parents to Roscoe.

As in, Roscoe doesn't have stable, understanding support for who they are.

So we should say Meg is the mum.

Or makes those decisions because how else do you support your kids?

So yeah, I thought you wrote about... Isn't available emotionally.

And you can despise someone that, you know, a few years previously was everything you wanted from life.

And you spent a lot of time with Meg's addiction and the focus on that I was really grateful for because it wasn't a plot point.

It's not, oh, and then this person is struggling because their mum has often let them down because of their addiction.

We spent so much time in her struggle and...

in the wide spectrum of emotions that Meg is experiencing and sometimes not wanting to experience.

Have you spent a long time writing this?

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