RHLSTP Book Club 137 - Keiran Goddard

RHLSTP with Richard Herring

British Comedy Guide

Comedy, Performing Arts, Tv & Film, Arts

4.8 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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RHLSTP Book Club 137 - I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning - Richard talks to the novelist Keiran Goddard about his affecting and fantastic second novel, I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning. They discuss the themes of the work including the changing nature of friendship, how we are encourage to escape our roots, the truth about gig economy and why people turn to drink and drugs, the decision to write the book from the perspectives of each friend, whilst retaining the idea of the hive mind that a group of friends have, having your work turned into filmed entertainment and why a lot of people turned up expecting to be extras in Peaky Blinders, the humour that fills this sometimes bleak work and how you feel when you watch an old video knowing everyone in it is now dead.

Buy the book here - https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/i-see-buildings-fall-like-lightning-keiran-goddard/6898605

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0:00.0	Hello, my finest friends. Welcome to my podcast feed. I'm Richard Herring. You may know me from Rahalesterper.
0:07.0	And talking of which, we are doing some more live gigs. There's one in Cheshem on the 24th of May at 1pm.
0:13.6	There's also one at the Playhouse Sheffield on the evening of the 5th of July.
0:18.8	And then I'm at the Edinburgh Fringe from the 30th of July to the 10th of August,
0:25.1	2 o'clock at Stand 3. If you go to rich terran.com slash Rahalus to put you can find all the ticket
0:30.5	links for those. The Sheffield one is selling very well. So do get in quick. We've always done well
0:35.4	in Sheffield. Thank you to my Sheffield friends and
0:37.7	fine friends. And also I'm still on tour with Can I have my ball back this week on Wednesday,
0:43.5	the 30th of April. I'm at the Midland Arts Centre in Birmingham. First of May, I'm at Lincoln Art
0:48.5	Centre. Please come to that. Hardly anyone's coming. Second of May, I'm at Leak, the Fox Law Art Centre. It's sold out, but you can add your
0:55.7	name to the waiting list. And the third of May I return to the Lowry Theatre in Salford for the
0:59.9	second time there with this show. Still some tickets left for all of those shows. I think Birmingham's selling
1:04.2	pretty well, but there's still a few tickets. So book early, go to rich herring.com slash ballback slash tour. Then there's still some extra gigs coming up, including the DVD record at the Gordon Craig Theatre and Stevenage on the 14th of May.
1:16.4	If you can make that one, it would be lovely.
1:18.2	The theatre is 30 seconds walk from the station.
1:21.3	You don't even have to go into Stevenage to see it.
1:24.1	You can get there from London, Cambridge or anywhere with a train station very easily.
1:28.0	I would love to see there because that's the one we're recording and it will be nice to have an audience.
1:33.0	Okay, let's sit back, relax and enjoy yet more podcast nonsense.
1:38.3	Coming from the mouth of me and whoever else is attending this particular event you've chosen to download.
1:45.3	Goodbye.
1:46.4	This episode is sponsored by Hive.
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