Episode
David Keenan & Andrew O’Hagan: Boyhood
- Published
- Jul 25, 2026
- Duration seconds
- 3926
- Processing state
not_requested
Actions
POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/london-review-bookshop-podcast-169718/episodes/david-keenan-andrew-o-hagan-boyhood/transcription-requests
Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode.GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/london-review-bookshop-podcast-169718/david-keenan-andrew-o-hagan-boyhood.md
Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource.
Summary
David Keenan’s Boyhood (White Rabbit) opens in 1979 with the abduction of a young boy outside a Glasgow football ground. Nine years later, the boy’s brother, blessed with the power to see into the past and future by a perhaps imaginary angel, leads us on a journey from wartime Paris to the Troubles in the 1970s, Mexico City in the 1980s to – of course – Glasgow, as the novel builds to an extraordinary, intense, climactic moment of redemption. ‘A complete triumph’ writes Irvine Welsh. ‘It slaps our dull, sterile culture hard across the face with a studded, uncompromising literary glove.’ David Keenan read from Boyhood, and talked about its themes, with LRB contributing editor Andrew O’Hagan. You can buy a copy of Boyhood from the London Review Bookshop. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices