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  1. Writing Our Mothers
    Archive on 4

    ‘Mothers have such a weight of idealisation and expectation landed upon their bodies and their minds and what women writers can do is to take that apart and explore
    its underbelly,’ says feminist writer Jacqueline Rose.

    Whether worshipped or vilified, treated as lifetime confidantes or rarely trusted, the mothers we meet when we write them are re-inventions. Some may be closer to the
    truth than others. Many of them will have roots in the life experiences of the daughter-writer. Virginia Woolf, who lost her mother at the age of 13, said she was obsessed with writing her mother. Eventually she also argued that it was ‘the occupation of the woman writer to kill’ what she called ‘The Angel in the House’ – the perfect, self-sacrificing mother – who may well have been her own maternal influence.

    Drawing on interviews with Maya Angelou, we hear how for her to write her mother was to ‘write about a hurricane in its perfect power’. She describes how the influence of a mother who ‘abandoned’ her as a child forced her most urgent examinations of class, race and, importantly love. In another frank interview with Marguerite Duras from 1968, she describes writing as a search for connection with her raging and ‘mad’ mother. For Sylvia Plath, the process of writing about becoming a mother herself in the 1950s produced work of a psychic intensity rarely seen before.

    What the archive ultimately reveals is that a mother, whether present or absent, loving or cruel, might be as formative an influence on a writer’s work, as in life. ‘When I read about motherhood, I want to be shaken loose from whatever limitations I have when I think about what that means,’ says the writer Siri Hustvedt.

    With contributions from Susie Orbach, Jacqueline Rose, Kit de Waal and Siri Hustvedt, and narration from Amaka Okafor.

    Produced by Sarah Cuddon
    A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

    Archive sources:
    Desert Island Discs with Arundhati Roy (2017)
    A Chance to Meet ... Edna O'Brien (1971)
    Sylvia Plath, Peter Orr interview (1962)
    Audre Lorde, Pacifica Radio Archives and Academy of American Poets www.poets.org
    Maya Angelou, BBC News (1985)
    Jeannette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (BBC, 1990) and Face To Face (BBC, 1994)
    Marguerite Duras, Worn Out With Desire To Write (1985)
    Toni Morrison, Brief Encounters (BBC, 2001)
    Jackie Kay, Book of the Week (The Waters Company for BBC R4, 2015)
    Elena Ferrante, Lying Lives of Adults (BBC, 2020)


    Available now

    57 minutes

    #BBCRadio4 #BBCArchiveOn4

    #ArundhatiRoy #EdnaOBrien
    #SylviaPlath #AudreLorde
    #MayaAngelou #JeannetteWinterson
    #MargueriteDuras #ToniMorrison
    #JackieKay #ElenaFerrante

    bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001k7s1

  2. Writing Our Mothers
    Archive on 4

    ‘Mothers have such a weight of idealisation and expectation landed upon their bodies and their minds and what women writers can do is to take that apart and explore
    its underbelly,’ says feminist writer Jacqueline Rose.

    Whether worshipped or vilified, treated as lifetime confidantes or rarely trusted, the mothers we meet when we write them are re-inventions. Some may be closer to the
    truth than others. Many of them will have roots in the life experiences of the daughter-writer. Virginia Woolf, who lost her mother at the age of 13, said she was obsessed with writing her mother. Eventually she also argued that it was ‘the occupation of the woman writer to kill’ what she called ‘The Angel in the House’ – the perfect, self-sacrificing mother – who may well have been her own maternal influence.

    Drawing on interviews with Maya Angelou, we hear how for her to write her mother was to ‘write about a hurricane in its perfect power’. She describes how the influence of a mother who ‘abandoned’ her as a child forced her most urgent examinations of class, race and, importantly love. In another frank interview with Marguerite Duras from 1968, she describes writing as a search for connection with her raging and ‘mad’ mother. For Sylvia Plath, the process of writing about becoming a mother herself in the 1950s produced work of a psychic intensity rarely seen before.

    What the archive ultimately reveals is that a mother, whether present or absent, loving or cruel, might be as formative an influence on a writer’s work, as in life. ‘When I read about motherhood, I want to be shaken loose from whatever limitations I have when I think about what that means,’ says the writer Siri Hustvedt.

    With contributions from Susie Orbach, Jacqueline Rose, Kit de Waal and Siri Hustvedt, and narration from Amaka Okafor.

    Produced by Sarah Cuddon
    A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

    Archive sources:
    Desert Island Discs with Arundhati Roy (2017)
    A Chance to Meet ... Edna O'Brien (1971)
    Sylvia Plath, Peter Orr interview (1962)
    Audre Lorde, Pacifica Radio Archives and Academy of American Poets www.poets.org
    Maya Angelou, BBC News (1985)
    Jeannette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (BBC, 1990) and Face To Face (BBC, 1994)
    Marguerite Duras, Worn Out With Desire To Write (1985)
    Toni Morrison, Brief Encounters (BBC, 2001)
    Jackie Kay, Book of the Week (The Waters Company for BBC R4, 2015)
    Elena Ferrante, Lying Lives of Adults (BBC, 2020)


    Available now

    57 minutes

    #BBCRadio4 #BBCArchiveOn4

    #ArundhatiRoy #EdnaOBrien
    #SylviaPlath #AudreLorde
    #MayaAngelou #JeannetteWinterson
    #MargueriteDuras #ToniMorrison
    #JackieKay #ElenaFerrante

    bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001k7s1

  3. Writing Our Mothers
    Archive on 4

    ‘Mothers have such a weight of idealisation and expectation landed upon their bodies and their minds and what women writers can do is to take that apart and explore
    its underbelly,’ says feminist writer Jacqueline Rose.

    Whether worshipped or vilified, treated as lifetime confidantes or rarely trusted, the mothers we meet when we write them are re-inventions. Some may be closer to the
    truth than others. Many of them will have roots in the life experiences of the daughter-writer. Virginia Woolf, who lost her mother at the age of 13, said she was obsessed with writing her mother. Eventually she also argued that it was ‘the occupation of the woman writer to kill’ what she called ‘The Angel in the House’ – the perfect, self-sacrificing mother – who may well have been her own maternal influence.

    Drawing on interviews with Maya Angelou, we hear how for her to write her mother was to ‘write about a hurricane in its perfect power’. She describes how the influence of a mother who ‘abandoned’ her as a child forced her most urgent examinations of class, race and, importantly love. In another frank interview with Marguerite Duras from 1968, she describes writing as a search for connection with her raging and ‘mad’ mother. For Sylvia Plath, the process of writing about becoming a mother herself in the 1950s produced work of a psychic intensity rarely seen before.

    What the archive ultimately reveals is that a mother, whether present or absent, loving or cruel, might be as formative an influence on a writer’s work, as in life. ‘When I read about motherhood, I want to be shaken loose from whatever limitations I have when I think about what that means,’ says the writer Siri Hustvedt.

    With contributions from Susie Orbach, Jacqueline Rose, Kit de Waal and Siri Hustvedt, and narration from Amaka Okafor.

    Produced by Sarah Cuddon
    A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

    Archive sources:
    Desert Island Discs with Arundhati Roy (2017)
    A Chance to Meet ... Edna O'Brien (1971)
    Sylvia Plath, Peter Orr interview (1962)
    Audre Lorde, Pacifica Radio Archives and Academy of American Poets www.poets.org
    Maya Angelou, BBC News (1985)
    Jeannette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (BBC, 1990) and Face To Face (BBC, 1994)
    Marguerite Duras, Worn Out With Desire To Write (1985)
    Toni Morrison, Brief Encounters (BBC, 2001)
    Jackie Kay, Book of the Week (The Waters Company for BBC R4, 2015)
    Elena Ferrante, Lying Lives of Adults (BBC, 2020)


    Available now

    57 minutes

    #BBCRadio4 #BBCArchiveOn4

    #ArundhatiRoy #EdnaOBrien
    #SylviaPlath #AudreLorde
    #MayaAngelou #JeannetteWinterson
    #MargueriteDuras #ToniMorrison
    #JackieKay #ElenaFerrante

    bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001k7s1

  4. Writing Our Mothers
    Archive on 4

    ‘Mothers have such a weight of idealisation and expectation landed upon their bodies and their minds and what women writers can do is to take that apart and explore
    its underbelly,’ says feminist writer Jacqueline Rose.

    Whether worshipped or vilified, treated as lifetime confidantes or rarely trusted, the mothers we meet when we write them are re-inventions. Some may be closer to the
    truth than others. Many of them will have roots in the life experiences of the daughter-writer. Virginia Woolf, who lost her mother at the age of 13, said she was obsessed with writing her mother. Eventually she also argued that it was ‘the occupation of the woman writer to kill’ what she called ‘The Angel in the House’ – the perfect, self-sacrificing mother – who may well have been her own maternal influence.

    Drawing on interviews with Maya Angelou, we hear how for her to write her mother was to ‘write about a hurricane in its perfect power’. She describes how the influence of a mother who ‘abandoned’ her as a child forced her most urgent examinations of class, race and, importantly love. In another frank interview with Marguerite Duras from 1968, she describes writing as a search for connection with her raging and ‘mad’ mother. For Sylvia Plath, the process of writing about becoming a mother herself in the 1950s produced work of a psychic intensity rarely seen before.

    What the archive ultimately reveals is that a mother, whether present or absent, loving or cruel, might be as formative an influence on a writer’s work, as in life. ‘When I read about motherhood, I want to be shaken loose from whatever limitations I have when I think about what that means,’ says the writer Siri Hustvedt.

    With contributions from Susie Orbach, Jacqueline Rose, Kit de Waal and Siri Hustvedt, and narration from Amaka Okafor.

    Produced by Sarah Cuddon
    A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

    Archive sources:
    Desert Island Discs with Arundhati Roy (2017)
    A Chance to Meet ... Edna O'Brien (1971)
    Sylvia Plath, Peter Orr interview (1962)
    Audre Lorde, Pacifica Radio Archives and Academy of American Poets www.poets.org
    Maya Angelou, BBC News (1985)
    Jeannette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (BBC, 1990) and Face To Face (BBC, 1994)
    Marguerite Duras, Worn Out With Desire To Write (1985)
    Toni Morrison, Brief Encounters (BBC, 2001)
    Jackie Kay, Book of the Week (The Waters Company for BBC R4, 2015)
    Elena Ferrante, Lying Lives of Adults (BBC, 2020)


    Available now

    57 minutes

    #BBCRadio4 #BBCArchiveOn4

    #ArundhatiRoy #EdnaOBrien
    #SylviaPlath #AudreLorde
    #MayaAngelou #JeannetteWinterson
    #MargueriteDuras #ToniMorrison
    #JackieKay #ElenaFerrante

    bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001k7s1

  5. Writing Our Mothers
    Archive on 4

    ‘Mothers have such a weight of idealisation and expectation landed upon their bodies and their minds and what women writers can do is to take that apart and explore
    its underbelly,’ says feminist writer Jacqueline Rose.

    Whether worshipped or vilified, treated as lifetime confidantes or rarely trusted, the mothers we meet when we write them are re-inventions. Some may be closer to the
    truth than others. Many of them will have roots in the life experiences of the daughter-writer. Virginia Woolf, who lost her mother at the age of 13, said she was obsessed with writing her mother. Eventually she also argued that it was ‘the occupation of the woman writer to kill’ what she called ‘The Angel in the House’ – the perfect, self-sacrificing mother – who may well have been her own maternal influence.

    Drawing on interviews with Maya Angelou, we hear how for her to write her mother was to ‘write about a hurricane in its perfect power’. She describes how the influence of a mother who ‘abandoned’ her as a child forced her most urgent examinations of class, race and, importantly love. In another frank interview with Marguerite Duras from 1968, she describes writing as a search for connection with her raging and ‘mad’ mother. For Sylvia Plath, the process of writing about becoming a mother herself in the 1950s produced work of a psychic intensity rarely seen before.

    What the archive ultimately reveals is that a mother, whether present or absent, loving or cruel, might be as formative an influence on a writer’s work, as in life. ‘When I read about motherhood, I want to be shaken loose from whatever limitations I have when I think about what that means,’ says the writer Siri Hustvedt.

    With contributions from Susie Orbach, Jacqueline Rose, Kit de Waal and Siri Hustvedt, and narration from Amaka Okafor.

    Produced by Sarah Cuddon
    A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

    Archive sources:
    Desert Island Discs with Arundhati Roy (2017)
    A Chance to Meet ... Edna O'Brien (1971)
    Sylvia Plath, Peter Orr interview (1962)
    Audre Lorde, Pacifica Radio Archives and Academy of American Poets www.poets.org
    Maya Angelou, BBC News (1985)
    Jeannette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (BBC, 1990) and Face To Face (BBC, 1994)
    Marguerite Duras, Worn Out With Desire To Write (1985)
    Toni Morrison, Brief Encounters (BBC, 2001)
    Jackie Kay, Book of the Week (The Waters Company for BBC R4, 2015)
    Elena Ferrante, Lying Lives of Adults (BBC, 2020)


    Available now

    57 minutes

    #BBCRadio4 #BBCArchiveOn4

    #ArundhatiRoy #EdnaOBrien
    #SylviaPlath #AudreLorde
    #MayaAngelou #JeannetteWinterson
    #MargueriteDuras #ToniMorrison
    #JackieKay #ElenaFerrante

    bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001k7s1

  6. "What is under the
    rubble in Gaza, is
    not just the bodies of
    palestinians, but
    the carcass of
    Western Liberal
    Democracy"
    - Arundhati Roy

    #gaza #genocide #ArundhatiRoy

  7. "What is under the
    rubble in Gaza, is
    not just the bodies of
    palestinians, but
    the carcass of
    Western Liberal
    Democracy"
    - Arundhati Roy

    #gaza #genocide #ArundhatiRoy

  8. "What is under the
    rubble in Gaza, is
    not just the bodies of
    palestinians, but
    the carcass of
    Western Liberal
    Democracy"
    - Arundhati Roy

    #gaza #genocide #ArundhatiRoy

  9. "What is under the
    rubble in Gaza, is
    not just the bodies of
    palestinians, but
    the carcass of
    Western Liberal
    Democracy"
    - Arundhati Roy

    #gaza #genocide #ArundhatiRoy

  10. "What is under the
    rubble in Gaza, is
    not just the bodies of
    palestinians, but
    the carcass of
    Western Liberal
    Democracy"
    - Arundhati Roy

    #gaza #genocide #ArundhatiRoy

  11. Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people's brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.
    -- Arundhati Roy

    #Wisdom #Quotes #ArundhatiRoy #Flags #Government #Propaganda

    #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #PuebloBonito #Ruins #360panorama #NewMexico

  12. Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people's brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.
    -- Arundhati Roy

    #Wisdom #Quotes #ArundhatiRoy #Flags #Government #Propaganda

    #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #PuebloBonito #Ruins #360panorama #NewMexico

  13. Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people's brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.
    -- Arundhati Roy

    #Wisdom #Quotes #ArundhatiRoy #Flags #Government #Propaganda

    #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #PuebloBonito #Ruins #360panorama #NewMexico

  14. Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people's brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.
    -- Arundhati Roy

    #Wisdom #Quotes #ArundhatiRoy #Flags #Government #Propaganda

    #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #PuebloBonito #Ruins #360panorama #NewMexico

  15. Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people's brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.
    -- Arundhati Roy

    #Wisdom #Quotes #ArundhatiRoy #Flags #Government #Propaganda

    #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #PuebloBonito #Ruins #360panorama #NewMexico

  16. @PallasRiot

    I see Ghandi mentioned below.

    To stop specific representation of Dalits in the Indian parliament and so preserve the caste system, that gentleman went on a hunger strike.
    This was a threat of violence, a threat of mob killings of hundreds of thousands of Dalit caste members if he died in the hungerstrike.
    The Dalit, to save all those lives, backed off, gave up trying for specific representation in parliament. India's caste system continued.

    #MahatmaGhandi #ArundhatiRoy

    #India

  17. @PallasRiot

    I see Ghandi mentioned below.

    To stop specific representation of Dalits in the Indian parliament and so preserve the caste system, that gentleman went on a hunger strike.
    This was a threat of violence, a threat of mob killings of hundreds of thousands of Dalit caste members if he died in the hungerstrike.
    The Dalit, to save all those lives, backed off, gave up trying for specific representation in parliament. India's caste system continued.

    #MahatmaGhandi #ArundhatiRoy

    #India

  18. @PallasRiot

    I see Ghandi mentioned below.

    To stop specific representation of Dalits in the Indian parliament and so preserve the caste system, that gentleman went on a hunger strike.
    This was a threat of violence, a threat of mob killings of hundreds of thousands of Dalit caste members if he died in the hungerstrike.
    The Dalit, to save all those lives, backed off, gave up trying for specific representation in parliament. India's caste system continued.

    #MahatmaGhandi #ArundhatiRoy

    #India

  19. @PallasRiot

    I see Ghandi mentioned below.

    To stop specific representation of Dalits in the Indian parliament and so preserve the caste system, that gentleman went on a hunger strike.
    This was a threat of violence, a threat of mob killings of hundreds of thousands of Dalit caste members if he died in the hungerstrike.
    The Dalit, to save all those lives, backed off, gave up trying for specific representation in parliament. India's caste system continued.

    #MahatmaGhandi #ArundhatiRoy

    #India

  20. @PallasRiot

    I see Ghandi mentioned below.

    To stop specific representation of Dalits in the Indian parliament and so preserve the caste system, that gentleman went on a hunger strike.
    This was a threat of violence, a threat of mob killings of hundreds of thousands of Dalit caste members if he died in the hungerstrike.
    The Dalit, to save all those lives, backed off, gave up trying for specific representation in parliament. India's caste system continued.

    #MahatmaGhandi #ArundhatiRoy

    #India

  21. Not to forget about the myth of the Arabs having an honor and pride.

    The passivity and silence of the vast majority of people witnessing the ongoing Genocide and daily atrocities by Israeli army and Jewish KKK hooligans in occupied territories is truly nauseating.

    Gaza, truly showed that "never again" is nothing than just an empty word to hide the Inhumanity of the people pretending to have empathy.

    #Gaza #Genocide #Israel #ArundhatiRoy

  22. Not to forget about the myth of the Arabs having an honor and pride.

    The passivity and silence of the vast majority of people witnessing the ongoing Genocide and daily atrocities by Israeli army and Jewish KKK hooligans in occupied territories is truly nauseating.

    Gaza, truly showed that "never again" is nothing than just an empty word to hide the Inhumanity of the people pretending to have empathy.

    #Gaza #Genocide #Israel #ArundhatiRoy

  23. Not to forget about the myth of the Arabs having an honor and pride.

    The passivity and silence of the vast majority of people witnessing the ongoing Genocide and daily atrocities by Israeli army and Jewish KKK hooligans in occupied territories is truly nauseating.

    Gaza, truly showed that "never again" is nothing than just an empty word to hide the Inhumanity of the people pretending to have empathy.

    #Gaza #Genocide #Israel #ArundhatiRoy

  24. Not to forget about the myth of the Arabs having an honor and pride.

    The passivity and silence of the vast majority of people witnessing the ongoing Genocide and daily atrocities by Israeli army and Jewish KKK hooligans in occupied territories is truly nauseating.

    Gaza, truly showed that "never again" is nothing than just an empty word to hide the Inhumanity of the people pretending to have empathy.

    #Gaza #Genocide #Israel #ArundhatiRoy

  25. Not to forget about the myth of the Arabs having an honor and pride.

    The passivity and silence of the vast majority of people witnessing the ongoing Genocide and daily atrocities by Israeli army and Jewish KKK hooligans in occupied territories is truly nauseating.

    Gaza, truly showed that "never again" is nothing than just an empty word to hide the Inhumanity of the people pretending to have empathy.

    #Gaza #Genocide #Israel #ArundhatiRoy

  26. Aamir Khan, Arundhati Roy Film to Lead London Indian Film Festival

    Bollywood actor and filmmaker Aamir Khan will appear in conversation at BFI Southbank on July 16 as the…
    #NewsBeep #News #Movies #AamirKhan #ArundhatiRoy #AU #Australia #Entertainment #InWhichAnnieGivesItThoseOnes #LondonIndianFilmFestival
    newsbeep.com/au/725129/

  27. Tussen de geverniste loopjongens

    Uit de tombola van de leesclub kwam de winner van de Booker-prize van 1997: De God van Kleine Dingen van Arundhati Roy. Een moderne klassieker, postkoloniale literatuur in een Indiase setting eind jaren '60. In De God van Kleine Dingen maken we kennis met een tweeling, Estha en Rahel. Vanuit hun perspectief als zevenjarigen bekjken we de wereld, en vooral hun familie. Meerdere generaties bevolken het boek: hun ouders, hun grootouders en overgrootouders. Dan nog ooms, tantes en nichtjes. […]

    filmvanalledag.nl/2026/06/07/t