Kae Tempest
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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.
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Because in your bio it says like a decade in the making.
it's been double the length there was characters that you'll never meet that have gone like um oh yeah i've been on a big journey with it so can i ask this is like a writerly question so did you pitch your novel to your publishers because that can sometimes be difficult if you've said i'm writing this story right now i have a bit of money no no you wrote it all first as far as i'm aware yeah you have to write the novel before you can get any money
And I think that's really... And it keeps Roscoe in this sort of arrested development.
Yeah, yeah.
And that's why it is important as a detail.
And I think the way that you give us information in the book is very masterful.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I always felt that you were in control as an author of what I needed to know about Roscoe at any point.
15 years away from your hometown for whatever reason, but even more so if you've been in a place that doesn't have self-checkouts in a supermarket, you are seeing the place that made you.
with such sort of new fresh eyes and the memories of your former self running around, which gets much obviously stronger towards the end of the book.
All these past selves, but pre-16.
And also it's like a, it's a really, I think it is the kind of thing people find at sixth form college.
If someone does want to go and look it up on the internet.
Yeah.
And it's big ideas, but it's not ideas that you can't grasp and, you know, think about.
Yeah.
The coping mechanisms can just be in opposition to each other.
But that was how you made yourself safe and that's how you made yourself safe or that's how you protected yourself.
That's so interesting about second child as well.
Yeah, so you're a different parent.
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