Thom Yorke on WTF

Marc Maron takes his time, with his usual long opening monologue before Thom Yorke arrives, and then talks with him far more about the person than about the record.

The conversation runs through family, formative figures and the kind of people who frighten a child into behaving properly, with Maron pushing for the thing underneath each answer.

Yorke describes years of political arguments at the dinner table, he and his brother both coming from the left and aiming across the table at a father who was a nuclear physicist, until their mother had to call a halt. He was the chippy left-winger of the household, he says, and it started early.