EP.168 - PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE
THE ADAM BUXTON PODCAST
Adam Buxton
4.8 • 20.6K Ratings
🗓️ 9 November 2021
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
Adam talks with American writer, investigative journalist and podcaster Patrick Radden Keefe about his books Empire Of Pain, which tells the story of the wealthy American family behind the opioid crisis, and Say Nothing about the troubles in Northern Ireland.
This episode was recorded remotely on July 7th, 2021.
Thanks to Séamus Murphy-Mitchell for his work on this episode
Podcast artwork by Helen Green
KEYBOARD FANTASIES Directed by POSY DIXON - 2019 (KEYBOARD FANTASIES WEBSITE)
RELATED LINKS
A LOADED GUN by PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE - 2013 (THE NEW YORKER)
Patrick's piece about about Amy Bishop, the Harvard Ph.D. who in February, 2010, opened fire at a biology department meeting after being refused tenure at the University of Alabama.
WIND OF CHANGE PODCAST - 2020 (CROOKED MEDIA WEBSITE)
THE FAMILY THAT BUILT AND EMPIRE OF PAIN by PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE - 2017 (NEW YORKER ARTICLE)
Patrick's original piece about the Sackler family.
THE OPIOID CRISIS - 2021 (NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE WEBSITE)
"BLOWING SMOKE UP YOUR ASS" USED TO BE LITERAL - 2014 (GIZMODO)
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| 0:00.0 | I added one more podcast to the giant podcast bin |
| 0:05.4 | Now you have plugged that podcast out and started listening |
| 0:09.7 | I took my microphone and found some human folk |
| 0:14.4 | Then I recorded all the noises while we spoke |
| 0:19.8 | My name is Adam Baxter and I'm a man |
| 0:24.8 | I want you to enjoy this, that's the plan |
| 0:31.8 | Hey, how you doing podcasts? |
| 0:35.8 | Adam Baxter here on a very beautiful afternoon slash evening |
| 0:42.7 | I mean it is an afternoon, it's not even, what is it? |
| 0:44.9 | Just on 4pm at the beginning of the second week of November 2021 |
| 0:54.1 | But already the sun is nearly down |
| 0:57.9 | Look at this though, coming over the brow of the hill |
| 1:02.7 | Catching the last rays of the sun as it shines through |
| 1:08.3 | Autominal leaves on the trees |
| 1:11.6 | Making them look as if there are blaze |
| 1:15.4 | With golden fire |
| 1:18.8 | Autumn's a pretty good season isn't it? |
| 1:25.2 | Let me tell you a bit about my guest for podcast number 168 |
| 1:30.0 | The American writer and investigative journalist Patrick Radden-Keefe |
| 1:35.9 | Patfax, Patrick currently aged 45 grew up in Massachusetts, USA |
| 1:42.8 | He went to college at New York's prestigious Columbia University |
| 1:46.8 | And received master's degrees from Cambridge |
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