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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You can have all kinds of ideas about who you are, but your life shows you.
So I'm kind of finding out as I go along.
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.
I broke my right leg.
Very, very badly.
Like the whole femur smashed in half and I had all kinds of smaller fractures.
I mean, it's still a thing.
People tell me I limp when it gets cold and it certainly gives me pain sometimes.
Yeah, that's the case.
Yeah?
Yeah, I was very melancholy and...
Quite isolated, I guess.
I read a lot.
I stayed at home a lot.
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