Zadie Smith
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602 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 20 Dec
Zadie Smith’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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That is mysterious to me.
I thought everybody was absolutely terrified.
And then you meet people who just seem completely chill about it.
And they are a constant amazement to me.
But to me, the idea of not existing, not being conscious, I just experience it as pure terror, but not so much anymore.
New things are scarier, like the death of your children turns out to be a lot more scary than your own death, which I couldn't have predicted when I was young.
I mean, I've never been physically risky.
Like my view is that, as my mother would say, I thought that bungee jumping and helicopter rides were basically for rich white people.
I'm not taking unnecessary risks at this point in human history.
I was never going to do any of that.
But I did take all the drugs and all of that stuff.
So I guess I took risks in a certain way.
But yeah, no physical dare doing.
By accident, yeah, but that's not something I ever would have, you know, chosen.
They did.
They thought it was suicide.
I was smoking a cigarette, which is one of the many life-shortening activities I've participated in over the decades, yeah.
Because my mom had kind of laid down the law and said no more smoking, so I was trying to do it surreptitiously and it went wrong.
Were you injured?
I was badly injured, yeah.
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