Julian Barnes
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Oct 28, 2026
Ian DuntHOST
The novelist
Dorian LynskeyHOST
Julian Barnes was at the Times back then.
Dorian LynskeyHOST
He wrote about it.
Dorian LynskeyHOST
The one thing everyone on the paper knew was that Murdoch regarded journalists as expendable, indeed more or less interchangeable.
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Dramatised by David Cregan.
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Starring Nicolas Lepreveau as Chief Inspector Maygray, with Julian Barnes as Georges Simenon.
Nicolas LepreveauVOICE_ACTOR
It was a dream world from the start.
Nicolas LepreveauVOICE_ACTOR
The wet night, the canals of the Vendée glittering in the darkness, and the tiny branch line to Saint-Aubin.
42 MINS LATER
Nicolas LepreveauVOICE_ACTOR
Decent people do such awful things to keep their place.
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Georges Simenon's Maigret, Inspector Cadaver, translated by Helen Thompson, was dramatized by David Cregan.
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Nicolas Lepreveau was Chief Inspector Maigret, and Julian Barnes was Simenon.
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Monsieur Noe was played by Michael N. Harbour, Madame Noe by Karen Archer, and Genevieve by Alice Hart.
Bob CarrGUEST
So that was gritty, but someone told me to read...
Bob CarrGUEST
Julian Barnes, in a short piece, in a book with two other pieces, unrelated, he describes his bereavement and it's pretty gritty.
CynthiaHOST
One of the things I found interesting was the amount of walking that you did at night and the amount of miles that you covered.
CynthiaHOST
Was it almost like a walking meditation?
Patricio BartonHOST
Sí.
GillespieHOST
De un escritor inglés que llaman Julian Barnes.
Alejandro DolinaHOST
Sí.
GillespieHOST
Le recomiendo absolutamente todo.
Uli BaerHOST
But he was also being photographed by Nadar.
Uli BaerHOST
So we have these images and portrait, and you have a wonderful story by Julian Barnes, which I didn't know at all the background of how Nadar became Nadar, which is the whole price of the book is worth that story by Julian Barnes, a remarkable story.
Uli BaerHOST
Wonderful.
Uli BaerHOST
But to go back to Subdata, filter out these elements that you want to kind of Explain to people today that they're worth understanding better because they're not as intuitive as they sound.
Uli BaerHOST
But he was also being photographed by Nadar.
Uli BaerHOST
So we have these images and portrait, and you have a wonderful story by Julian Barnes, which I didn't know at all the background of how Nadar became Nadar, which is the whole price of the book is worth that story by Julian Barnes, a remarkable story.
Neil SelkirkGUEST
Wonderful.
Uli BaerHOST
But to go back to Subdata, filter out these elements that you want to kind of Explain to people today that they're worth understanding better because they're not as intuitive as they sound.
Uli BaerHOST
But he was also being photographed by Nadar.
Uli BaerHOST
So we have these images and portrait, and you have a wonderful story by Julian Barnes, which I didn't know at all the background of how Nadar became Nadar, which is the whole price of the book is worth that story by Julian Barnes, a remarkable story.
Uli BaerHOST
Wonderful.
Uli BaerHOST
But to go back to Subdata, filter out these elements that you want to kind of Explain to people today that they're worth understanding better because they're not as intuitive as they sound.
CryptowiresHOST
In 1970s London, he ran with a brilliant generation, writing for the New Statesman.
CryptowiresHOST
He was close friends with Martin Amis, Ian McEwen, Julian Barnes, Salman Rushdie, and the poet James Fenton.
CryptowiresHOST
He moved to the US in 1981 and made it to his home, becoming a US citizen in 2007.
CryptowiresHOST
His transatlantic, impossibly well-read voice delivered with a cigarette and a scotch became his trademark.
speaker_2NARRATOR
Dramatised by David Cregan.
speaker_2NARRATOR
Starring Nicholas Lepreveau as Chief Inspector May Gray, with Julian Barnes as George Simenon.
speaker_2NARRATOR
Ah.
Jules MaigretVOICE_ACTOR
Are you off? Yes, yes, yes.
42 MINS LATER
Jules MaigretVOICE_ACTOR
They have a girl and two boys now and are very happy.
speaker_2NARRATOR
Georges Simenon's Maigret, The Yellow Dog, was dramatized by David Cregan.
speaker_2NARRATOR
Nicolas Lepreveau was Chief Inspector Maigret, and Julian Barnes was Simenon.
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Inspector Leroy was played by Chris Moran.
Bob CarrGUEST
Just as I got comfort looking at, got some understanding of this, looking at C.S. Lewis, or Geraldine Brooks, Joyce Carol Oates, and Joan Didion.
Bob CarrGUEST
And a very tough, a very gritty view of bereavement, a book written after his wife, very soon after his wife had gone, by Julian Barnes.
Bob CarrGUEST
I mean, he's one who does something I'd never been drawn to, contemplate suicide.
Bob CarrGUEST
He says, I'll give it another three months or another three years.
Bob CarrGUEST
All those years.
Bob CarrGUEST
You imagine it might have been 60 years.
Bob CarrGUEST
And Julian Barnes sums that up.
Bob CarrGUEST
And that's what I draw to the attention of women like those women in the queue to get my book, to plant that idea that this is universal, that couples are made to be ruptured by the laws of the universe.
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