Lara Pawson

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266 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 10 Aug

Lara Pawson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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London Review Bookshop Podcast · James Meek & Lara Pawson: Your Life Without Me · 15 Jun 2026 podcast

I felt I recognised myself in the characters a lot.

He says that.

That's another character, the security guard, who is in St Paul's Cathedral, who Raph encounters when he's doing his PhD research.

Every character is so memorable.

I sort of feel like they exist in the world.

I could rock up at St Paul's Cathedral and see them there.

It's so familiar, isn't it, to all of us?

I can see everybody nodding and sort of half smiling and it's so familiar.

I love that piece of writing.

I did want to sort of talk a bit about Mr. Berman, but I actually feel that that piece there really relates to

wrath and his kind of anger, he gets really angry about the fact that people are sort of, I can't remember the line, but he sort of says, why isn't everybody angry about this?

Why aren't people, in London as well, he said it's in London as well.

And actually that passage reminds me of the towns near where my parents live in Dorset.

You know, this is just like across the country, isn't it?

And I felt kind of reading wrath

I sort of related to him.

I found myself thinking, yeah, you would want to kind of blow something up to disrupt, to wake people up.

The kind of, the violence, yeah, the death drive.

I put in my notes, you know, has James been reading about the death drive?

Is this the kind of, is this more interesting?

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