Paul Murray
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370 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 23 Jun
Paul Murray’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So she feels really, really guilty about all that stuff.
Like climate change, it's so difficult to write about because it is so huge and it is so hard to know what anyone can do about it.
But I just wanted it to be there.
I wanted it to be something that...
that is in the background, because I feel like it is in the background.
Every time I look at the news, it's, you know, the L.A.
fires, for instance, you know, or Trump leaving the climate accords, you know, you're just watching this like roller coaster going straight down.
And the natural response is to try and
just block it out, you know, and double down and say, like, well, I'm just going to keep doing what I'm doing.
But in the book, I guess I wanted to try and think about, I guess there's two different ways you can think about it, which I wanted to go into in the book.
So we've talked about Victor and this idea of prepping, and that's sort of like the nihilistic version of it, whereby
you think, well, all I can do is like, humanity is like, is doomed.
And all we can do is just like, just get out.
I'm going to build my own little, you know, bunker and hideaway.
And, you know, just if anyone comes near, I'm going to shoot them with my harpoon.
I don't endorse that viewpoint.
But then, like, so Willie, we encounter Willie quite late in the book and he's become a politician and he talks about climate change in a different way.
And it kind of ties into what's happening with the family and the future the family could have.
It's like, you know, what if we just dropped our masks and acted with some spirit of togetherness?
You know, there's so much...
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