Podcasts about Vera Brittain

In this episode we look at the stories of the families left behind by the casualties of the Great War. How did they cope? What happened to their sons in World War 2? We hear from writer Vera Brittain about how she felt when her fiancée died and what happened when she opened the parcel that contained his bloodstained kit. And we look at the story of Philip Wooding who died from shrapnel wounds a year after the Armistice but cannot be commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. We also examine the story of a father and son who died in different wars and are buried just a few yards away from each other, with the same family inscription on their headstone.

La escritora y académica Paloma Diaz-Mas  tenía en enero de 2021 otro planes literarios, quería hacer un libro a partir de un sueño, pero un mal sueño que se hizo realidad lo cambió todo, la muerte inesperada de su hermano en un Madrid en plena nevada de la filomena.  A partir de la noticia del fallecimiento de un ser tan querido arranca una novela sobre la pérdida y el duelo que acaba de publicar Anagrama, 'las fracturas doradas'. La tragedia familiar le lleva a evocaciones y recuerdos familiares, a la congoja que define el estado de tristeza cuando piensas en lo que puso ser que ya no será. Paloma Díaz-Mas nos ha dejado su novela, pero ha donado otras dos : 'El lazarillo de Tormes' (Anonimo) y  'Testamento de juventud' de Vera Brittain (Errata Naturae) . Antonio Martínez Asensio, nuestro bibliotecario vino en este primero de noviembre cargado de libros, primero con tres don juanes, el 'Don Juan Tenorio' de José Zorrilla (Anaya)  más 'Don Juan' de Gonzalo Torrente Ballester (Alianza Editorial) y 'Don Juan' de Lord Byron (Penguin Clásicos). Pero es que también le dio hoy a Don Asensio por el arte y nos trajo 'No pienses, mira' de Mercè Ibartz (Anagrama),'Yo estoy en la imagen' de  Miguel Ángel Hernández (Acantilado), 'Una vida para el arte' de Susana Chillida (Galaxia Gutemberg) y 'Los amantes de Picasso' de Jeanne Mackin (Navona). En el capítulo de novedades el empleado Pepe Rubio nos trajo 'Ropa tendida' de Oscar García (Anagrama) y 'La casa limón' de Corina Oproae (Tusquets). El programa de Antonio Martínez Asensio "Un libro una hora" nos trajo 'La tercera mentira' de Agota Kristof (Libros del Asteroide). Y finalmente las donaciones a la biblioteca de los oyentes de Hoy por Hoy que han sido 'Mujercitas' de Mary Alcott (Lumen), 'La mujer justa' de Sandor Marai (Salamandra) y 'La mujer habitada' de Gioconda Belli (Seix Barral) 

Tens of thousands of Italian civilians perished in the Allied bombing raids of World War II. More of them died after the Armistice of September 1943 than before, when the air attacks were intended to induce Italy's surrender. Allied Air Attacks and Civilian Harm in Italy, 1940–1945 (Routledge, 2023) addresses this seeming paradox, by examining the views of Allied political and military leaders, Allied air crews, and Italians on the ground. It tells the stories of a little-known diplomat (Myron Charles Taylor), military strategist (Solly Zuckerman), resistance fighter (Aldo Quaranta), and peace activist (Vera Brittain) – architects and opponents of the bombing strategies. It describes the fate of ordinary civilians, drawing on a wealth of local and digital archival sources, memoir accounts, novels, and films, including Joseph Heller's Catch-22 and John Huston's The Battle of San Pietro. The book will be of interest to readers concerned about the ethical, legal, and human dimensions of bombing and its effects on civilians, to students of military strategy and Italian history, and to World War II buffs. They will benefit from a people-focused history that draws on a range of eclectic and rarely used sources in English and Italian. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Tens of thousands of Italian civilians perished in the Allied bombing raids of World War II. More of them died after the Armistice of September 1943 than before, when the air attacks were intended to induce Italy's surrender. Allied Air Attacks and Civilian Harm in Italy, 1940–1945 (Routledge, 2023) addresses this seeming paradox, by examining the views of Allied political and military leaders, Allied air crews, and Italians on the ground. It tells the stories of a little-known diplomat (Myron Charles Taylor), military strategist (Solly Zuckerman), resistance fighter (Aldo Quaranta), and peace activist (Vera Brittain) – architects and opponents of the bombing strategies. It describes the fate of ordinary civilians, drawing on a wealth of local and digital archival sources, memoir accounts, novels, and films, including Joseph Heller's Catch-22 and John Huston's The Battle of San Pietro. The book will be of interest to readers concerned about the ethical, legal, and human dimensions of bombing and its effects on civilians, to students of military strategy and Italian history, and to World War II buffs. They will benefit from a people-focused history that draws on a range of eclectic and rarely used sources in English and Italian. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

Tens of thousands of Italian civilians perished in the Allied bombing raids of World War II. More of them died after the Armistice of September 1943 than before, when the air attacks were intended to induce Italy's surrender. Allied Air Attacks and Civilian Harm in Italy, 1940–1945 (Routledge, 2023) addresses this seeming paradox, by examining the views of Allied political and military leaders, Allied air crews, and Italians on the ground. It tells the stories of a little-known diplomat (Myron Charles Taylor), military strategist (Solly Zuckerman), resistance fighter (Aldo Quaranta), and peace activist (Vera Brittain) – architects and opponents of the bombing strategies. It describes the fate of ordinary civilians, drawing on a wealth of local and digital archival sources, memoir accounts, novels, and films, including Joseph Heller's Catch-22 and John Huston's The Battle of San Pietro. The book will be of interest to readers concerned about the ethical, legal, and human dimensions of bombing and its effects on civilians, to students of military strategy and Italian history, and to World War II buffs. They will benefit from a people-focused history that draws on a range of eclectic and rarely used sources in English and Italian. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/military-history

Tens of thousands of Italian civilians perished in the Allied bombing raids of World War II. More of them died after the Armistice of September 1943 than before, when the air attacks were intended to induce Italy's surrender. Allied Air Attacks and Civilian Harm in Italy, 1940–1945 (Routledge, 2023) addresses this seeming paradox, by examining the views of Allied political and military leaders, Allied air crews, and Italians on the ground. It tells the stories of a little-known diplomat (Myron Charles Taylor), military strategist (Solly Zuckerman), resistance fighter (Aldo Quaranta), and peace activist (Vera Brittain) – architects and opponents of the bombing strategies. It describes the fate of ordinary civilians, drawing on a wealth of local and digital archival sources, memoir accounts, novels, and films, including Joseph Heller's Catch-22 and John Huston's The Battle of San Pietro. The book will be of interest to readers concerned about the ethical, legal, and human dimensions of bombing and its effects on civilians, to students of military strategy and Italian history, and to World War II buffs. They will benefit from a people-focused history that draws on a range of eclectic and rarely used sources in English and Italian. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-studies

Tens of thousands of Italian civilians perished in the Allied bombing raids of World War II. More of them died after the Armistice of September 1943 than before, when the air attacks were intended to induce Italy's surrender. Allied Air Attacks and Civilian Harm in Italy, 1940–1945 (Routledge, 2023) addresses this seeming paradox, by examining the views of Allied political and military leaders, Allied air crews, and Italians on the ground. It tells the stories of a little-known diplomat (Myron Charles Taylor), military strategist (Solly Zuckerman), resistance fighter (Aldo Quaranta), and peace activist (Vera Brittain) – architects and opponents of the bombing strategies. It describes the fate of ordinary civilians, drawing on a wealth of local and digital archival sources, memoir accounts, novels, and films, including Joseph Heller's Catch-22 and John Huston's The Battle of San Pietro. The book will be of interest to readers concerned about the ethical, legal, and human dimensions of bombing and its effects on civilians, to students of military strategy and Italian history, and to World War II buffs. They will benefit from a people-focused history that draws on a range of eclectic and rarely used sources in English and Italian. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/italian-studies

Tens of thousands of Italian civilians perished in the Allied bombing raids of World War II. More of them died after the Armistice of September 1943 than before, when the air attacks were intended to induce Italy's surrender. Allied Air Attacks and Civilian Harm in Italy, 1940–1945 (Routledge, 2023) addresses this seeming paradox, by examining the views of Allied political and military leaders, Allied air crews, and Italians on the ground. It tells the stories of a little-known diplomat (Myron Charles Taylor), military strategist (Solly Zuckerman), resistance fighter (Aldo Quaranta), and peace activist (Vera Brittain) – architects and opponents of the bombing strategies. It describes the fate of ordinary civilians, drawing on a wealth of local and digital archival sources, memoir accounts, novels, and films, including Joseph Heller's Catch-22 and John Huston's The Battle of San Pietro. The book will be of interest to readers concerned about the ethical, legal, and human dimensions of bombing and its effects on civilians, to students of military strategy and Italian history, and to World War II buffs. They will benefit from a people-focused history that draws on a range of eclectic and rarely used sources in English and Italian. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/science-technology-and-society

Tens of thousands of Italian civilians perished in the Allied bombing raids of World War II. More of them died after the Armistice of September 1943 than before, when the air attacks were intended to induce Italy's surrender. Allied Air Attacks and Civilian Harm in Italy, 1940–1945 (Routledge, 2023) addresses this seeming paradox, by examining the views of Allied political and military leaders, Allied air crews, and Italians on the ground. It tells the stories of a little-known diplomat (Myron Charles Taylor), military strategist (Solly Zuckerman), resistance fighter (Aldo Quaranta), and peace activist (Vera Brittain) – architects and opponents of the bombing strategies. It describes the fate of ordinary civilians, drawing on a wealth of local and digital archival sources, memoir accounts, novels, and films, including Joseph Heller's Catch-22 and John Huston's The Battle of San Pietro. The book will be of interest to readers concerned about the ethical, legal, and human dimensions of bombing and its effects on civilians, to students of military strategy and Italian history, and to World War II buffs. They will benefit from a people-focused history that draws on a range of eclectic and rarely used sources in English and Italian. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This book tells the untold story of the Married Women's Association. Unlike more conventional histories of family law, which focus on legal actors, it highlights the little-known yet indispensable work of a dedicated group of life-long activists. Formed in 1938, the Married Women's Association took reform of family property law as its chief focus. The name is deceptively innocuous, suggesting tea parties and charity fundraisers, but in fact the MWA was often involved in dramatic confrontations with politicians, civil servants, and Law Commissioners. The Association boasted powerful public figures, including MP Edith Summerskill, authors Vera Brittain and Dora Russell, and barrister Helena Normanton. They campaigned on matters that are still being debated in family law today. Sharon Thompson's Quiet Revolutionaries: The Married Women's Association and Family Law (Hart Publishing, 2022) sheds new light upon legal reform then and now by challenging longstanding assumptions, showing that piecemeal legislation can be an effective stepping stone to comprehensive reform and highlighting how unsuccessful bills, though often now forgotten, can still be important triggers for change. Drawing upon interviews with members' friends and family, and thousands of archival documents, the book is compulsory reading for lawyers, legal historians, and anyone who wishes to explore histories of law reform from the ground up. Jeannette Cockroft is an associate professor of history and political science at Schreiner University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

This book tells the untold story of the Married Women's Association. Unlike more conventional histories of family law, which focus on legal actors, it highlights the little-known yet indispensable work of a dedicated group of life-long activists. Formed in 1938, the Married Women's Association took reform of family property law as its chief focus. The name is deceptively innocuous, suggesting tea parties and charity fundraisers, but in fact the MWA was often involved in dramatic confrontations with politicians, civil servants, and Law Commissioners. The Association boasted powerful public figures, including MP Edith Summerskill, authors Vera Brittain and Dora Russell, and barrister Helena Normanton. They campaigned on matters that are still being debated in family law today. Sharon Thompson's Quiet Revolutionaries: The Married Women's Association and Family Law (Hart Publishing, 2022) sheds new light upon legal reform then and now by challenging longstanding assumptions, showing that piecemeal legislation can be an effective stepping stone to comprehensive reform and highlighting how unsuccessful bills, though often now forgotten, can still be important triggers for change. Drawing upon interviews with members' friends and family, and thousands of archival documents, the book is compulsory reading for lawyers, legal historians, and anyone who wishes to explore histories of law reform from the ground up. Jeannette Cockroft is an associate professor of history and political science at Schreiner University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/gender-studies

This book tells the untold story of the Married Women's Association. Unlike more conventional histories of family law, which focus on legal actors, it highlights the little-known yet indispensable work of a dedicated group of life-long activists. Formed in 1938, the Married Women's Association took reform of family property law as its chief focus. The name is deceptively innocuous, suggesting tea parties and charity fundraisers, but in fact the MWA was often involved in dramatic confrontations with politicians, civil servants, and Law Commissioners. The Association boasted powerful public figures, including MP Edith Summerskill, authors Vera Brittain and Dora Russell, and barrister Helena Normanton. They campaigned on matters that are still being debated in family law today. Sharon Thompson's Quiet Revolutionaries: The Married Women's Association and Family Law (Hart Publishing, 2022) sheds new light upon legal reform then and now by challenging longstanding assumptions, showing that piecemeal legislation can be an effective stepping stone to comprehensive reform and highlighting how unsuccessful bills, though often now forgotten, can still be important triggers for change. Drawing upon interviews with members' friends and family, and thousands of archival documents, the book is compulsory reading for lawyers, legal historians, and anyone who wishes to explore histories of law reform from the ground up. Jeannette Cockroft is an associate professor of history and political science at Schreiner University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/european-studies

This book tells the untold story of the Married Women's Association. Unlike more conventional histories of family law, which focus on legal actors, it highlights the little-known yet indispensable work of a dedicated group of life-long activists. Formed in 1938, the Married Women's Association took reform of family property law as its chief focus. The name is deceptively innocuous, suggesting tea parties and charity fundraisers, but in fact the MWA was often involved in dramatic confrontations with politicians, civil servants, and Law Commissioners. The Association boasted powerful public figures, including MP Edith Summerskill, authors Vera Brittain and Dora Russell, and barrister Helena Normanton. They campaigned on matters that are still being debated in family law today. Sharon Thompson's Quiet Revolutionaries: The Married Women's Association and Family Law (Hart Publishing, 2022) sheds new light upon legal reform then and now by challenging longstanding assumptions, showing that piecemeal legislation can be an effective stepping stone to comprehensive reform and highlighting how unsuccessful bills, though often now forgotten, can still be important triggers for change. Drawing upon interviews with members' friends and family, and thousands of archival documents, the book is compulsory reading for lawyers, legal historians, and anyone who wishes to explore histories of law reform from the ground up. Jeannette Cockroft is an associate professor of history and political science at Schreiner University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This book tells the untold story of the Married Women's Association. Unlike more conventional histories of family law, which focus on legal actors, it highlights the little-known yet indispensable work of a dedicated group of life-long activists. Formed in 1938, the Married Women's Association took reform of family property law as its chief focus. The name is deceptively innocuous, suggesting tea parties and charity fundraisers, but in fact the MWA was often involved in dramatic confrontations with politicians, civil servants, and Law Commissioners. The Association boasted powerful public figures, including MP Edith Summerskill, authors Vera Brittain and Dora Russell, and barrister Helena Normanton. They campaigned on matters that are still being debated in family law today. Sharon Thompson's Quiet Revolutionaries: The Married Women's Association and Family Law (Hart Publishing, 2022) sheds new light upon legal reform then and now by challenging longstanding assumptions, showing that piecemeal legislation can be an effective stepping stone to comprehensive reform and highlighting how unsuccessful bills, though often now forgotten, can still be important triggers for change. Drawing upon interviews with members' friends and family, and thousands of archival documents, the book is compulsory reading for lawyers, legal historians, and anyone who wishes to explore histories of law reform from the ground up. Jeannette Cockroft is an associate professor of history and political science at Schreiner University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/law

This book tells the untold story of the Married Women's Association. Unlike more conventional histories of family law, which focus on legal actors, it highlights the little-known yet indispensable work of a dedicated group of life-long activists. Formed in 1938, the Married Women's Association took reform of family property law as its chief focus. The name is deceptively innocuous, suggesting tea parties and charity fundraisers, but in fact the MWA was often involved in dramatic confrontations with politicians, civil servants, and Law Commissioners. The Association boasted powerful public figures, including MP Edith Summerskill, authors Vera Brittain and Dora Russell, and barrister Helena Normanton. They campaigned on matters that are still being debated in family law today. Sharon Thompson's Quiet Revolutionaries: The Married Women's Association and Family Law (Hart Publishing, 2022) sheds new light upon legal reform then and now by challenging longstanding assumptions, showing that piecemeal legislation can be an effective stepping stone to comprehensive reform and highlighting how unsuccessful bills, though often now forgotten, can still be important triggers for change. Drawing upon interviews with members' friends and family, and thousands of archival documents, the book is compulsory reading for lawyers, legal historians, and anyone who wishes to explore histories of law reform from the ground up. Jeannette Cockroft is an associate professor of history and political science at Schreiner University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/british-studies

This book tells the untold story of the Married Women's Association. Unlike more conventional histories of family law, which focus on legal actors, it highlights the little-known yet indispensable work of a dedicated group of life-long activists. Formed in 1938, the Married Women's Association took reform of family property law as its chief focus. The name is deceptively innocuous, suggesting tea parties and charity fundraisers, but in fact the MWA was often involved in dramatic confrontations with politicians, civil servants, and Law Commissioners. The Association boasted powerful public figures, including MP Edith Summerskill, authors Vera Brittain and Dora Russell, and barrister Helena Normanton. They campaigned on matters that are still being debated in family law today. Sharon Thompson's Quiet Revolutionaries: The Married Women's Association and Family Law (Hart Publishing, 2022) sheds new light upon legal reform then and now by challenging longstanding assumptions, showing that piecemeal legislation can be an effective stepping stone to comprehensive reform and highlighting how unsuccessful bills, though often now forgotten, can still be important triggers for change. Drawing upon interviews with members' friends and family, and thousands of archival documents, the book is compulsory reading for lawyers, legal historians, and anyone who wishes to explore histories of law reform from the ground up. Jeannette Cockroft is an associate professor of history and political science at Schreiner University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gaetano ToldonatoXIV Edizioni di TeatroComunitàDal 15 giugno al 9 luglio 2023 un ricco calendario di eventi, mostre, spettacoli e workshop per riscoprire la storia dell'Associazione Chorós e riflettere sull'utilità sociale del TeatroTeatroComunità in Festival è ormai un appuntamento rituale a Teatro Marchesa, che per la sua XIV edizione si trasforma e torna nelle vesti di Teatro Marchesa - Cantiere in Arte. Dal 15 giugno al 9 luglio, infatti, il ‘palco' di Barriera di Milano accoglierà un ricco programma di performance, spettacoli e workshop per ripercorrere la storia del teatro e dell'Associazione Culturale Choròs, che quest'anno festeggia anche i suoi 10 anni come presidio culturale e artistico di riferimento nel territorio della Circoscrizione 6.A caratterizzare questa nuova edizione di TeatroComunità in Festival, il tema di ‘cantiere artistico' che intende anticipare il cantiere reale che interesserà presto tutta l'area. Grazie ai fondi del PNRR e al sostegno progettuale ed economico della Città di Torino, infatti, Teatro Marchesa verrà ristrutturato. In questo modo, tutti gli spazi della Cascina (Teatro, Biblioteca, Scuola e Sala Colonne) potranno trasformarsi in luogo artistico, interagendo tramite linguaggi diversi: danza, teatro, letteratura, arte visiva, storia e musica. Da sempre, infatti, l'Associazione Culturale Choròs si interroga sull'utilità sociale del teatro: ascolto, cittadinanza, immaginazione, arte, territorio e solidarietà tra artisti e persone non sono che le parole più importanti che ne guidano l'operato. «Si è giunti a concepire questo luogo quale simbolo di una presenza culturale ed artistica in Barriera, dopo un lavoro decennale nella comunità e nel teatro – racconta Maria Grazia Agricola, direttrice dell'Associazione Choròs – Pensiamo a cosa sia successo in un remoto angolo della Sicilia con la costruzione da parte dell'artista pastore/scultore Lorenzo Reina del teatro Andromeda: con un atto artistico ha trasformato la sorte di un territorio abbandonato, restituendolo alla comunità e creando anche una nuova vitalità economica. Ecco, noi pensiamo che Teatro Marchesa, insieme ad altre realtà ed interventi artistici e culturali presenti in loco, possa, e lo ha già dimostrato in parte, essere un volano per la trasformazione e la riqualificazione di questo territorio. Crediamo nella potenza sociale dell'arte e del teatro e nella creazione di un modello culturale innovativo, capace di rispondere a nuovi bisogni di rappresentanza simbolica da parte di abitanti di diverse età, formazione culturale, provenienza geografica e sociale». A partire proprio da questo cantiere fisico, dunque, ne prenderà piede uno metaforico, che accoglierà appuntamenti, eventi e laboratori aperti a tutta la città (richiesta la prenotazione) acavallo tra giugno e luglio.Ad inaugurare il Festival il 15 giugno alle ore 18 sarà un'installazione evento, progetto nato da un'idea di Maria Grazia Agricola e Marianna Barbaro. Una mostra fotografica a cura di Lorena Tadorni – con scatti di Gaetano Toldonato – che verrà allestita nel Foyer del teatro per ripercorrere la storia di Choròs Comunità e dei suoi protagonisti. Questi ultimi si racconteranno mettendo in scena la performance "Il Teatro nel Mondo" a cura di Maria Grazia Agricola e Marianna Barbaro. All'interno dell'allestimento saranno presentati, inoltre, dei video-racconti sulla storia e il futuro di Cascina Marchesa e sulle precedenti produzioni teatrali di Choròs Comunità, con la partecipazione dell'assessora Rosanna Purchia, il presidente della Circoscrizione 6 Valerio Lomanto e della consigliera comunale Nadia Conticelli. Le produzioni video sono a cura di Andrea Deaglio, Gaetano Toldonato e Luciano Vivirito. Il 16 giugno alle ore 16.30 vedrà il debutto dello spettacolo “Maneggiateci con-tatto”, un progetto di Chiara Cau e Rita Stasi, scritto e interpretato dai ragazzi della cooperativa sociale Altramente: un viaggio nei vissuti personali di giovani con problematiche psichiatriche narrato attraverso i cinque sensi. Il 17 giugno alle ore 21.30 Teatro Marchesa accoglierà Associazione ArTeMuDa con il loro “Non avere paura”, uno spettacolo sull'amore e il coraggio di essere se stessi, scritto, diretto e interpretato da Roberto Micali, Jovana Panic e Patrizia Spadaro, liberamente ispirato a The Pride di Alexis Campbell. Il 18 giugno dalle ore 18, Giulietta DeBernardi e Paola Dusio proporranno in anteprima per bambini e famiglie una rilettura a rovescio del mito di Proserpina, con la performance itinerante “Il ritorno al pianeta Terra”. A seguire, un nuovo atto performativo di Choròs Comunità, seconda parte de “Il Teatro nel Mondo”, che ci porterà dentro all'incontro delle persone con Cascina Marchesa, metafora del nostro incontro con il teatro, con la vita.Si prosegue poi il 23 giugno alle ore 21 con il debutto, nella sua forma finale, dell'ultimo percorso teatrale dell'Associazione Choròs dal titolo "Quei sogni di felicità che credevamo al sicuro", presentato a dicembre 2022 come esito laboratoriale e poi nel marzo 2023 all'interno di Biennale Democrazia. Una drammaturgia corale, l'omonimo testo di Vera Brittain e una scenografia in movimento sono i perni fondanti di questa scrittura teatrale, che indaga nei vissuti dei protagonisti/autori per riflettere sulla fragilità della nostra democrazia e libertà.A chiudere il Festival sarà, infine, un workshop intensivo che si terrà dal 4 al 9 luglio a cura di Duccio Bellugi Vannuccini e Maria Grazia Agricola. Tramite la tecnica delle maschere balinesi applicate a una ricerca drammaturgica sui propri vissuti, i partecipanti avranno modo di lavorare sul testo “Le città invisibili” di Italo Calvino, alla ricerca dei propri luoghi del cuore, metaforici e no. DIECI di DIECIsaperne di piùDiventa un supporter di questo podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/il-posto-delle-parole--1487855/support.

Sabina Terziani"La ninfa costante"Margaret KennedyFazi Editorehttps://fazieditore.it/Traduzione di Sabina TerzianiMargaret Kennedy, grande autrice del Novecento inglese ingiustamente dimenticata, torna nelle librerie italiane con La ninfa costante, il suo capolavoro: all'epoca dell'uscita un successo da un milione di copie che fu pubblicato in quindici paesi e conobbe una serie di fortunati adattamenti teatrali e cinematografici.Il compositore Albert Sanger vive in un cottage sulle Alpi austriache con la sua numerosa famiglia: il cosiddetto Circo Sanger, composto da lui, sua moglie – la terza – e sette figli, tra i quali spicca la scaltra quattordicenne Teresa, da sempre innamorata di uno degli amici del padre, Lewis Dodd. Presso l'allegra compagine trovano regolare ospitalità artisti e musicisti provenienti da tutta Europa, in una festa continua. Quando la morte di Sanger interrompe bruscamente l'idillio alpino, la famiglia della sua seconda moglie decide di intervenire in favore della prole rimasta orfana. Fa così il suo ingresso sulla scena la cugina Florence Churchill, per la quale l'incontro con Dodd è fatale: i due si innamorano all'istante, decidono di sposarsi e di tornare in Inghilterra portando con loro i piccoli Sanger. Ma alla prova del rientro nella civiltà, la loro intesa si incrina molto velocemente: l'impatto con la società inglese e il suo conformismo per lui è troppo. L'impossibilità di una conciliazione tra ordine e sregolatezza appare tanto evidente quanto allettante è l'idea di una fuga…Un personaggio femminile indimenticabile, una narrazione ricca di grazia e la messinscena dell'eterno conflitto tra anarchia bohémienne e rispettabilità borghese fanno di La ninfa costante una lettura deliziosa.«Teresa possedeva una particolare commistione di innocenza e scaltrezza, un modo di parlare infantile e acuto al tempo stesso e disponeva di un vocabolario un po' antiquato, semi letterario, e intonazioni prese in prestito da altre lingue. Tutto ciò era molto piacevole e rinfrescante, dopo tutto il provincialismo erudito che gli era toccato sopportare. In lei scorgeva ignoranza, immaturità e una sconfinata, primitiva passione».Margaret KennedyNacque a Londra nel 1896 e si laureò in Storia a Oxford, dove conobbe Naomi Mitchison, Vera Brittain, Winifred Holtby. Esordì come storica nel 1922 con A Century of Revolution e come romanziera l'anno successivo con The Ladies of Lyndon. La ninfa costante fu il suo più grande successo. Negli anni Sessanta lasciò Londra per ritirarsi nell'Oxfordshire, dove morì nel 1967.IL POSTO DELLE PAROLEAscoltare fa Pensarehttps://ilpostodelleparole.it/

Lusitania's legacy is also absolutely unsinkable. To buy Larson's book or any books I have featured, visit my Bookshop affiliate page: https://bookshop.org/shop/unsinkablepodFor a general look at World War One, see the modern classic by John Keegan, The First World War or David Stevenson's 1914-1918: The History of the First World WarListener Dan (thank you, Dan!) recommends, in the podcast realm: The Old Front Line (https://oldfrontline.co.uk/) and Footsteps of the Fallen (https://footstepsofthefallen.buzzsprout.com/)My dear friend Shirley recommends Vera Brittain's memoir Testament of YouthTo support the pod on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/unsinkablepodSupport the show

Daisy Dunn tells Spencer Mizen how students at Oxford University – including Evelyn Waugh, Vera Brittain and John Betjeman – were buffeted by world events in the 1920s and 30s. (Ad) Daisy Dunn is the author of Not Far From Brideshead: Oxford Between the Wars (Orion Publishing, 2022). Buy it now from Waterstones: http://www.awin1.com/cread.php?awinmid=4746&awinaffid=489797&p=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.waterstones.com%2Fbook%2Fnot-far-from-brideshead%2Fdaisy-dunn%2F9781474615570&clickref=historyextra-social-histboty See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Vera Brittain (1893 - 1970), verpleegster in oorlogstijd, schrijfster, activiste, feministe is in Nederland vrijwel onbekend. In deze podcast gaan we in gesprek met medisch historicus en Eerste Wereldoorlogkenner Leo van Bergen over het bewogen leven van Brittain. Aan haar onbezorgde leven als meisje uit een gegoed Engels milieu kwam een einde na het uitbreken van WOI. Ze brak haar studie in Oxford af om net als haar broer en diens vrienden zich als patriot in te zetten voor de glorie van haar vaderland. Ze meldde zich aan als vrijwillige verpleegster (VAD) Haar aanvankelijke enthousiasme sloeg al snel om, mede door de ontluisterende brieven uit de loopgraven van haar verloofde. De gruwelijkheden die ze zelf zal meemaken vormen de inspiratie voor haar latere leven als schrijfster en pacifiste Een www.pocketpodcast.nl productie

On today's poetry interlude, I'll be discussing the tragic love story of poets Vera Brittan and Roland Leighton. A nurse in World War I, Brittan immortalized “The Lost Generation” with her autobiography and poetry; the loss of her fiancee Leighton to war would shape her writing and later anti-war work. If you'd like to learn more, hit play.

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This week we are joined by historian Olivia Smith, one half of the brilliant Khaki Malarkey podcast, to examine 2014's 'Testament of Youth'. We discuss the book the film is based on, World War One nursing and Vera Brittain - the protagonist and author of Testament of Youth. Released around the centennial of the beginning of the Great War the film stars Alicia Vikander, as Brittain, alongside a stellar cast including Kit Harrington, Colin Morgan, Taron Egerton, Dominic West and Hayley Atwell. Be sure to follow us on Twitter @FightingOnFilm and on Facebook. For more check out our website www.fightingonfilm.com Thanks for listening!

During the first year of the First World War, Vera Brittain went from studying English Literature at Oxford to nursing for the war effort. By the end of the war she had lost two male friends, her fiance and her brother, Edward. By this time, she had also evolved from the sister who encouraged her brother to sign up for duty to the ‘outstanding feminist pacifist of her generation.' In this episode, James speaks to Caroline Kennedy-Pipe from Loughborough University about Vera's life, her route into pacifism and her efforts against warfare before and during the Second World War.© Somerville College Archive See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

En este episodio de El Librero, Mauricio y Jorge hablaron sobre Testamento de juventud, la memoria de Vera Brittain sobre su experiencia como enfermera durante la Primera Guerra Mundial. También hablan sobre Frankenstein en Bagdad de Ahmed Saadawi e incluso hablaron sobre literatura colombiana, más exactamente sobre Las estrellas son negras de Arnoldo Palacios.

Bestselling author Adele Parks talks about her favourite books and writers. Including Enid Blyton, Vera Brittain, Clare Mackintosh and Muriel Spark. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Rachel Reeves MP, Hull academic Jane Thomas and New Generation Thinker Katie Cooper discuss the novel South Riding and the writing and politics of Winifred Holtby with Matthew Sweet and an audience in Hull at the Contains Strong Language Festival. With readings by Rachel Dale. Winifred Holtby (23 June 1898 – 29 September 1935) came from a farming family in Yorkshire, met Vera Brittain at Oxford University and shared a house in London as they began their careers as writers. Brittain went on to publish Testament of Youth. Holtby made her name with journalism for newspapers including the Manchester Guardian and the feminist magazine Time and Tide and published 14 books including the first critical study of Virginia Woolf. When her doctor gave her only two more years to live, she devoted herself to writing her novel South Riding which was published the year after she died aged 37. Rachel Reeves is Labour MP for Leeds and the author of books including Women of Westminster: The MPs Who Changed Politics Jane Thomas is Professor of Victorian and early 20th century literature at Hull University. Dr Katie Cooper teaches at the University of East Anglia and is a BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker working on a project exploring writers' organisations and free expression. Contains Strong Language is the BBC's national poetry and spoken word festival which took place in Hull for the first time 3 years ago as part of the City of Culture celebrations. Producer Fiona McLean

Emily Hobhouse, Vera Brittain en Edith Dickenson: drie kampvegters vir vroue-regte met een ding in gemeen - die Anglo-Boereoorlog. Die stryd, wat ook as die Suid-Afrikaanse oorlog bekend staan, het vandag 120 jaar gelede uitgebreek. Terwyl Boeregeneraals soos De Wet en De La Rey tradisioneel as die helde van die oorlog beskou is, voel historici die tyd het nou aangebreek om vroue se rol in die oorlog te gedenk. Anna-Marie Jansen van Vuuren berig vanuit Bloemfontein..

This week, we speak with Current Affairs (@curaffairs) Editor-in-Chief Nathan J. Robinson (@NathanJRobinson) about pacifism: why it’s so maligned in popular discourse, and why a horror of war and violence is a necessary thing in our violence-saturated era. Nathan recently published a piece on the topic of pacifism and the memoirs of Vera Brittain, which you can read here: https://www.currentaffairs.org/2019/03/the-importance-of-pacifism You can access Vera Brittain’s ‘Testament of Youth’ in PDF form here: https://ia601600.us.archive.org/7/items/in.ernet.dli.2015.34310/2015.34310.Testament-Of-Youth-An-Autobiographical-Study-Of-The-Years-1900-1925.pdf This week’s bonus is a Q&A session. You can learn what Nate and Francis think is the best invention ever, whether or not the NFL is going to employ veterans as anti-kneeling goons, and what Francis is currently growing in his garden. Access it on Patreon here at the $3 monthly tier: https://www.patreon.com/posts/march-q-session-25623888 We have a YouTube channel now -- subscribe here and get sweet videos from us in which we yell in our cars like true veterans: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwlHZpNTz-h6aTeQiJrEDKw Are you tired of your veteran-themed coffee company shirts being too subtle? Well, we have a solution to your problems: https://teespring.com/dickgun-coffee-company#pid=387&cid=101869&sid=front We also have a Soviet-inspired socialist gym rat shirt, for the Swoletariat: https://teespring.com/swoletariat#pid=755&cid=103339&sid=front You can follow the show on Twitter here: @HellOfAWay Follow Nate here: @inthesedesertsFollow Francis here: @ArmyStrang

Samraghni Bonnerjee gives a talk for the workshop, What is a Decolonial Curriculum? Held at TORCH on 28th November 2018. Decolonising the curriculum must mean more than simply including diverse texts. As Dalia Gebrial, one of the editors of the new book, Decolonising the University (Pluto Press, 2018) has written, any student and academic-led decolonisation movement must not only 'rigorously understand and define its terms, but locate the university as just one node in a network of spaces where this kind of struggle must be engaged with. To do this...is to enter the university space as a transformative force

For the 100 year anniversary of Armistice Day, we got a little more serious and read the excellent WWI memoir A Testament of Youth by feminist, pacifist, WWI nurse, poet and writer, Vera Brittain. Recommendations:Pat Barker’s brilliant Regeneration trilogy of novels (Regeneration, The Eye in the Door, The Ghost Road)Juliet Nicholson, The Great Silence: Britain from the Shadow of the First World War to the Dawn of the Jazz AgeRobert Gerwarth, The Vanquished: Why the First World War Failed to EndGood and Mad by Rebecca TraisterDan Carlin’s Hardcore History podcastThe Work of the Dead by Thomas LaqueurWar is a Force that Gives Us Meaning by Chris HedgesAlso stay tuned for a mini-episode about WWI nursing. For December, we’re reading A Long Fatal Love Chase.

A conversation with Jean Moorcoft Wilson on the life of British war poet and novelist, Robert Graves; and a postscript on the life of writer and peace activist Vera Brittain.

How has the First World War been fictionalised, in Australia, over the past century? And what about the Indian experience, with 1.5 million soldiers at war: has that story entered its popular imagination?

Was ever being so born to calamity? For Halloween we have a special treat, lesbian vampires who are into anagrams, in Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan le Fanu. In this episode we talk about vampire class issues, exactly how much of the f/f action is unconscious subtext (spoiler alert: none of it), and vampires as a metaphor for Irish politics.Recommendations:* Angela Carter’s short-story, the Lady of the House of Love (it’s in The Bloody Chamber) which is vaguely based on The Sleeping Beauty, and is a great vampire story. * Nancy Collins’s Sonja Blue novels* The Vampire Book: The Encyclopedia of the Undead, J. Gordon Melton * Varney the Vampire* What We Do in the ShadowsPlease rate and review and tell your friends! For next month, we're reading A Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain.

Baroness Shirley Williams recalls her mother, WW2 anti-bombing protestor; 20 years since a mass killing in Omagh, the African-American photographer whose coverage of Martin Luther King's funeral won him a Pullitzer Prize, plus when TV finally came to South Africa and the birth of the instant noodle. Photo: Vera Brittain at Euston Station, London, in 1956. Credit: Central Press/Hulton Archive/Getty Images

During WW2 the feminist and writer, Vera Brittain, spoke out against the saturation bombing of German cities. Her stance won her enemies in Britain and the USA. Vincent Dowd has been speaking to her daughter Shirley Williams about the impact of her campaign.Photo: Vera Brittain at Euston Station, London, in 1956. Credit: Central Press/Hulton Archive/Getty Images

This week, Max and Janette talk about two women whose lives were marred by death and pain. The first, an American icon, lived a wild life; large chunks of which have been missing from her story for far too long. The second, an accomplished writer and pacifist, exposed the world to the pain of her lost love and the sacrifice of her generation. We're talking about Harriet Tubman and Vera Brittain! Intro and Ad Music provided by BenSound.com Logo Art by Sydney Tannenbaum Join the Conversation! umpboh.com Facebook.com/umpboh Patreon.com/UrsulaMajor Twitter.com/bitcherypodcast Instagram.com/thebitcheryofhistory Max: @QuirkyTitle Janette Danielson (@Neddie94) The Team: Allison: @AHPowell91 Kimberly Coscia (@KimberlyGrace48) Sydney Tannenbaum (@sydneyxmastree) Jess Lee (@jessmlee)

In 1928 Radclyffe Hall wrote 'The Well of Loneliness', a novel that featured female characters in same-sex relationships. Shortly after it was published, the Sunday Express called for the book to be suppressed and urged the Home Office to censor it. Despite attempts by writers including Vera Brittain, T.S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf to defend the novel as a book of literary, sociological and psychological significance, it was banned later that year.In this podcast, we look at files from the obscenity trial to find out why a lesbian novel that lacked any lewd imagery or language was classed as obscene. Hear what the novel meant to sexologists such as Henry Havelock Ellis; which side of the trial Rudyard Kipling offered to stand on; and the alternate plot lines that the magistrate believed would spare a novel with gay characters from censorship.

This week we explore the delightful Strawberry Hill House in Twickenham, with an added discussion on gothic architecture (and Hogwarts) and our heroine is chronicler of WW1 Vera Brittain. Strawberry Hill House is lovely, please visit it and visit the tea shop: www.strawberryhillhouse.org.uk The Philip Larkin poem which Sara references is MCMXIV: www.poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/mcmxiv Never Marry A Mitford is produced by Sara Sherwood.

Nesta edição do nosso bate-papo cinéfilo: - Juventudes Roubadas (00:03:37): lançamento direto em home video no Brasil narra a vida da escritora Vera Brittain e sua experiência na Primeira Guerra Mundial. Com Alicia Vikander e Kit Harington.   - Longe Deste Insensato Mundo (00:13:47): Thomas Vinterberg dirige esta nova adaptação do clássico romance de Thomas Hardy, também lançada direto em home video no Brasil, com Carey Mulligan no papel principal.   - Mistress America (00:22:49): a nova parceria de Noah Baumbach e Greta Gerwig, de Frances Ha.   - Aliança do Crime (00:33:33): Johnny Depp interpreta o gângster James "Whitey" Bulger neste drama criminal coestrelado por Joel Edgerton e Benedict Cumberbatch e dirigido por Scott Cooper. - Como Sobreviver a um Ataque Zumbi (00:50:49): comédia com zumbis dirigida por Christopher B. Landon, com Tye Sheridan e David Koechner.   - Jessica Jones (00:52:20): a nova série da Marvel, disponível na íntegra no Netflix.   - Jogos Vorazes: A Esperança - O Final (01:04:33): na Sessão Spoiler, o desfecho da saga de Katniss Everdeen em sua batalha contra o Presidente Snow. Programa apresentado e produzido por Renato Silveira, com os comentários de Antônio Tinôco e Stephania Amaral, da equipe Cinema em Cena, e de Marcelo Seabra, do blog O Pipoqueiro. Edição e mixagem de áudio: Eduardo Garcia. Interaja com os demais ouvintes nos comentários abaixo. Tem um recado para a nossa equipe? Envie sua mensagem para o e-mail cinema@cinemaemcena.com.br

This year marks the 100th time Australians have commemorated Anzac Day. Simon Smart and Natasha Moore speak to the Rev Dr Colin Bale, Vice Principal, Academic Dean, and Head of the Department of Church History at Moore Theological College, about his interest in WWI war graves and what the inscriptions soldiers' families chose for them tell us about the spirituality of the time. Moving from commemoration of soldiers by their contemporaries to the reimagining of WWI today, Life and Faith also reviews a new film version of Vera Brittain's war memoir, Testament of Youth. 

Matthew Sweet presents a live edition from Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival of Ideas at Sage Gateshead with composer Max Richter, whose credits include music for "Shutter Island", "Waltz with Bashir" and "Sarah's Key". Matthew explores Max's approach to writing for film and features scores from "Waltz with Bashir", "When We Leave", "Sarah's Key", "The Congress" and his music for the forthcoming "Testament of Youth", based on the life story of Vera Brittain. Max has chosen this week's classic score which is Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov's music for Tarkovsky's 1966 masterpiece, "Andrei Rublev".

From BBC Radio 4: How the war shaped the lives of a generation of women. While women in their thousands volunteered for war service and the number of women employed went up by more than a million by 1918, what power did women really achieve outside the home and how lasting was it? Joining Jenni Murray, Baroness Shirley Williams on the war's impact on the generation of her mother, Testament of Youth author Vera Brittain; writer and broadcaster Kate Adie; Joanna Bourke, Professor of History at Birkbeck College; and cultural historian Professor Maggie Andrews, University of Worcester. We also hear from Dr Jennian Geddes about the work of doctors Flora Murray and Louisa Garrett Anderson who established and ran the only British army hospital staffed entirely by women, treating wounded soldiers. Part of World War One on the BBC. Discover more at bbc.co.uk/ww1

The writer and pacifist Vera Brittain is discussed by her daughter Baroness Shirley Williams and Dr Clare Gerada, Chair of the Royal College of GPs. Vera Brittain's life was shaped by the grief that followed the loss of her fiance, her brother and two good friends. She candidly conveyed the toll of the First World War on her generation in the best-selling 1933 book, Testament of Youth. Matthew Parris chairs an insightful exploration of what it was like to be brought up by Vera a mother who was, for many reasons, simply unavailable to the young Shirley Williams. Vera was a teenage feminist desperate for an education. But she turned her back on her studies at Oxford in 1914 because she felt compelled to serve as a nurse, wanting to join her brother and his friends in the trenches. Shirley Williams explains that as a result of her experiences, Vera became a committed pacifist, at a time when it was deeply unpopular to do so. Dr Clare Gerada nominates a fascinating life while paying tribute to two women - mother and daughter - who she believes have made the 21st century a better place for women to live. Produced by Mark Smalley. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2012.

Professor Eavan Boland introduces the book "Testament of Youth" to members of Stanford Book Salon community. (November 1, 2011)

Shirley Williams, now Baroness Williams, returns to her childhood homes in London's Chelsea and the New Forest. Her mother was the writer, Vera Brittain, whose most famous novel - Testament of Youth - was a best-seller when Shirley was a child in the 1930s. Her father, George Catlin, was an academic and and an instinctive feminist whose own mother had been an early suffragette, ostracised by Victorian society. He was a frustrated politician who stood for parliament a number of times but was never elected. But these were not the only nurturing adults in her young life. Also hugely significant was her mother's best friend, Winifred Holtby, and the housekeeper and her husband, Amy & Charlie Burnett - a bright, under-educated working class couple whom Shirley adored. The conversations in her childhood home centred on world events - the Spanish civil war and the rise of Hitler. Vera Brittain was a pacifist and, as such, found herself and her husband on the Nazis' blacklist. Had the Germans invaded in 1940, Shirley's parents would likely have been eliminated. Fearful of this, soon after war broke out and with the battle of the Atlantic raging, they put Shirley and her brother on a ship and evacuated them to the USA. The programme focuses on the relationships she forged with the adults in her early life and what she learned from them all. She credits her father with giving her the confidence to pursue a life in politics, Amy with imbuing in her a practical understanding of the constraints of a class-bound society, her mother with a vision of nobility and Winifred? Winifred was simply fun. Wendy Robbins accompanies Shirley Williams as she revisits the homes and haunts of her childhood. Producer : Rosamund Jones.

Mariella presents the first in a four part series examining the history of women's writing in the last hundred years. In A Book of One's Own: How Women Wrote The Twentieth Century, she speaks to leading novelists, critics and publishers to trace the evolution of women's emancipation in fiction. Part 1 explores the literature of the suffrage movement with the aid of Shirley Williams - daughter of the iconic feminist author Vera Brittain - and asks why the names of so many groundbreaking suffrage writers have been erased from our literary history. Also, Ross Raisin, author of God's Own Country, discusses his new book Waterline.

Sue Lawley's castaway this week is the politician Baroness Williams of Crosby. Shirley Williams has spent her life immersed in politics. Her father was a Labour Party activist and her mother the writer and pacifist Vera Brittain. Their home was always filled with topical conversation, from the rise of Hitler to the Spanish Civil War. She became a Labour Party member when still a teenager and, after a chance encounter in an air-raid shelter, formed a friendship with the then Home Secretary Herbert Morrison. She enjoyed a career within the Labour Party but, dismayed by its drift to the left, she abandoned it to become one of the Gang of Four who set up the Social Democratic Party in 1981 and later supported its merger with the Liberal Party. Now, as the Liberal Democrats are in the midst of leadership elections, she reflects on the difficulties the party has faced in recent months, and what it must do to regain public support.[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]Favourite track: How Beautiful are the Feet by George Frideric Handel Book: Collection by W H Auden Luxury: PC linked to the internet

Sue Lawley's castaway this week is the politician Baroness Williams of Crosby. Shirley Williams has spent her life immersed in politics. Her father was a Labour Party activist and her mother the writer and pacifist Vera Brittain. Their home was always filled with topical conversation, from the rise of Hitler to the Spanish Civil War. She became a Labour Party member when still a teenager and, after a chance encounter in an air-raid shelter, formed a friendship with the then Home Secretary Herbert Morrison. She enjoyed a career within the Labour Party but, dismayed by its drift to the left, she abandoned it to become one of the Gang of Four who set up the Social Democratic Party in 1981 and later supported its merger with the Liberal Party. Now, as the Liberal Democrats are in the midst of leadership elections, she reflects on the difficulties the party has faced in recent months, and what it must do to regain public support. [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs] Favourite track: How Beautiful are the Feet by George Frideric Handel Book: Collection by W H Auden Luxury: PC linked to the internet

The Rt Hon Shirley Williams is President of the Social Democratic Party. In conversation with Michael Parkinson, she talks about her mother Vera Brittain, her life in America during the war as an evacuee, her career; first as a journalist, then as a politician, and her break with the Labour Party to form the SDP.[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]Favourite track: Introduction and Allegro For Strings Opus 4 by Edward Elgar Book: Collected poems by W B Yeats Luxury: BBC computer

The Rt Hon Shirley Williams is President of the Social Democratic Party. In conversation with Michael Parkinson, she talks about her mother Vera Brittain, her life in America during the war as an evacuee, her career; first as a journalist, then as a politician, and her break with the Labour Party to form the SDP. [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs] Favourite track: Introduction and Allegro For Strings Opus 4 by Edward Elgar Book: Collected poems by W B Yeats Luxury: BBC computer