Patrick Radden Keefe, author of Say Nothing and Empire of Pain, gives his first solo show on London Falling, his book about a death on the Thames.
Patrick Radden Keefe, author of Say Nothing, presents his first solo show on London Falling at the Royal Festival Hall on the South Bank on Sunday 30 May 2027.
Keefe was born in Boston and studied at Columbia University and Yale Law School. He has worked as a magazine reporter for two decades.
Say Nothing, his history of the Troubles, became a television series. Empire of Pain, on the Sackler family, won the Baillie Gifford Prize.
London Falling begins in 2019, when the London teenager Zac Brettler fell to his death from a luxury apartment block on the Thames. His parents found that he had been living as the son of a Russian oligarch, in a city where dirty money buys silence.
There is no interviewer and no panel. Keefe uses unheard audio and visual material from three years of reporting, and covers the leads that never made the book and the sources who came forward after it.
In London he is joined by guests connected to the case, before a full audience Q&A.