Olivia Laing
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 10 Aug
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So as Jack said, it starts in London.
There's a sense that something...
a crisis has happened in London but you don't know what that crisis is and this book will be set in 1973-74 in London and that is the same as this is about Italy set in a very interesting political moment that moment in London is the winter of discontent it's the IRA bombing campaign
It is the oil crisis.
It just feels like a moment where an awful lot of seeds for our own world were planted.
In fact, I started writing it and then the oil crisis that we're currently in started.
So I think there's a sense that these are interrogating the issues of our own lives and our own world by way of this strange mirror of the mid-70s.
Yeah.
Exciting.
head?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely.
I actually don't think fascism was that far behind for either Fellini or Pasolini.
And a lot of this is them thinking through and Danilo thinking through.
You know, he grew up in...
He came of age in the 40s in Florence where he was living under fascism.
They all had experienced that.
I think that's really important
these are all people who had lived through fascism.
They knew what it was and I don't think any of them bought the sense that it was over for good.
So you have these scenes where Danilo is like...
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