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  1. Kemi's team are going to have to listen to this interview and explain why she is such a massive gobshite.

    #KemiBadenoch #BBCRadio4 #BBCTodayProgramme

  2. Kemi's team are going to have to listen to this interview and explain why she is such a massive gobshite.

    #KemiBadenoch #BBCRadio4 #BBCTodayProgramme

  3. Kemi's team are going to have to listen to this interview and explain why she is such a massive gobshite.

    #KemiBadenoch #BBCRadio4 #BBCTodayProgramme

  4. Kemi's team are going to have to listen to this interview and explain why she is such a massive gobshite.

    #KemiBadenoch #BBCRadio4 #BBCTodayProgramme

  5. Kemi's team are going to have to listen to this interview and explain why she is such a massive gobshite.

    #KemiBadenoch #BBCRadio4 #BBCTodayProgramme

  6. 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

  7. Intimacy (Radio Version)

    1. Did You Just Dribble on Me?
    2. I Like Being Naked

    Episode 1 of 4

    Intimacy coordinator Liza lands a major film on a Greek island, but old tensions resurface. As she meets the cast, setting boundaries proves harder than expected.

    Lena Headey as Liza
    Tia Bannon as Ruby
    Hannah Waddingham as Lou
    Alison Steadman as Mum
    Simon Kassianides as Rob
    Thaddea Graham as Kate
    Tom Goodman-Hill as Gary
    Maisie Williams as Bunny
    Matthew Broome as Alex

    Additional Voices:
    Dempsey Bovell, Tom Glenister, Mark Kilcawley, James Nicolaou, Paul Panting, Finlay Paul, Nigel Pilkington, Josh Singh Sian, Sam Stafford, Sarah Whitehouse

    Based on an original idea by Erika Lust
    Executive Producers: Sharon Horgan, Faye Dorn
    Executive Producer for the BBC: Dylan Haskins
    Assistant Commissioner for BBC: Lorraine Okuefuna
    Written, created and directed by Lena Headey
    Constultant Audio Director: Celia De Wolff
    Series Producer: Emma Morgan
    Story Producer: Maddie Beautyman and Megan Heverin
    Production Manager: Archan Mohile
    Production Coordinator: Marlene Beauquis Smith
    Production Runner: Tobias Davies
    Script Assistants: Liis Miik and Jo Troy
    Casting Director: Lauren Evans
    Intimacy Coordinator: Robbie Taylor Hunt
    Recorded at Sound Node
    Sound Designer: Martin Schulz
    Supervising Sound Editor and Mixer: Daniel Jaramillo
    Recording Engineers: David Crane and Giancarlo Granata
    Music and Score composed by Max Perryment
    Merman Television Managing Director: Rebecca Parkinson
    Merman Finance Director: Jackie Sidey
    Merman Television Head of Production: Amanda Wasey
    Merman Television Finance Manager: Gemma Wilson
    Legal and Business Affairs: Mark Rogers and Georges Villeneau
    Artwork Photography: Stevan Keane
    Behind the Scenes: Michas Vanni

    A Merman Television Scotland production for BBC Radio 4

    28 minutes

    On air

    Today
    23:00
    BBC Radio 4

    #LenaHeadey #BBCRadio4 #BBCDeama
    #BBCIntimacy
    #AlisonSteadman #MaisieWilliams

    bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002zqmg

  8. 🌟 Did you discover our 'Researcher spotlight' in the latest issue of Changing Populations, our newsletter magazine? If not, you missed some great interviews, announcements and resources 🌟

    ▶️ Navigate to section 10 to read the full round-up: sway.cloud.microsoft/WzAYgcw05

    #socialscience #economics #demography #eventhistoryanalysis #carers #caring #intergenerational #generations #migration #REF2029 #BBCRADIO4 #demographic #population #changingpopulations

  9. I’m so looking forward to being a guest on #BBCWomansHour tomorrow, Friday March 31st, tune in, join us from 10am #BBCRadio4 - I’ll be chatting books and poetry with brilliant Anita Rani, catch us LIVE tomorrow morning or anytime via #BBCSounds #BBCiPlayer thank you!

    #PessimismIsForLightweights #MrsDeathMissesDeath #bookchat #bbcradio #bookstodon #SalenaGodden