Will Eaves

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270 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 8 Jul

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London Review Bookshop Podcast · Luke Kennard & Will Eaves - Black Bag · 8 Jul 2026 podcast

And misses it.

And misses it partly because it's a sort of refuge from the outside world and from the complications of his life.

But he also, he cleaves to it, I think, because it's a blank canvas where suddenly everything is possible.

His lover says, I'm a person, you are an absence.

I loved all the scenes with Josephine.

There's an extremely... Oh, I just want to actually go back a bit.

I don't want this to be a recitation of all the great bits in the book, but there is a marvellous scene where he goes for dinner with another actress.

uh with whom he sort of could have had a relationship but but it didn't really happen and this is the point at which he's he's just immersing himself in the role he's and he's as himself in the restaurant he's really missing black bag he's missing the smell of the leather he's he's missing the sense of enclosure and retreat and refuge and while samantha is in the toilet he just can't stop himself he empties her leather handbag and sticks his head in it

Absolutely.

Brilliant, brilliant moment.

Yeah.

So missing the... He misses the smell of the bag.

That, I think... I wanted to mention that.

You're very good on smell.

I've got my favourite sense.

And I really love that description of the bag because it seems to me that inter alia, when you talk about masculinity, and it struck me that...

so much of what people think is important about the body you know this deluxe maxing cult yes yeah various oh my god bodybuilding and so on have got absolutely nothing to do with what another person usually values about that person

Or even the sex at a quite transactional level.

Yes.

Not absolutely nothing, but far less than you might think.

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