Podcasts about Virago Press

Latest Podcast from Spoken Label (Spoken Word / Poetry Podcast) features Lynn Walton. Lynn advises "I am a Salford based poet and some of my work centres on this inspiring city and nearby Manchester. My work moves from serious to amusing to risqué. One of my favourite styles is fusing topics that don't normally belong together. I perform at a variety of events  and venues and occasionally on Salford City Radio, and have been published in several anthologies including one by Virago Press. Recently, I published some of my work in three booklets." All three of her collections be purchased from https://www.lynnwaltonpoet.co.uk/ She is also on facebook at:

Georgina Godwin interviews former editor in chief of Bloomsbury Publishing, Alexandra Pringle, who held the post for twenty years. Her list of authors includes William Boyd, Margaret Atwood, Richard Ford, Khaled Hosseini and Kamila Shamsie. She joined Virago Press in 1978 and helped to launch their Modern Classics series, which championed out-of-print books by forgotten female authors. She speaks to Georgina about her early failures, trusting your editorial gut and her latest venture, Silk Road Slippers. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Alexandra was Editor-in-Chief of Bloomsbury Publishing for 20 years and she is now Executive Publisher. She began her career on the art magazine Art Monthly and joined Virago Press in 1978 where she edited the Virago Modern Classics series, becoming Editorial Director in 1984. In 1990 she moved to Hamish Hamilton as Editorial Director and four years later left publishing to become a literary agent during which time her clients included Amanda Foreman, Geoff Dyer, Maggie O'Farrell and Ali Smith. She joined Bloomsbury in 1999. Her list of authors includes Margaret Atwood, Richard Ford, Esther Freud, Elizabeth Gilbert, Sheila Hancock, Khaled Hosseini, Celia Imrie, Nicole Krauss, Jhumpa Lahiri, Colum McCann, Anne Michaels, Ann Patchett, Hannah Rothschild, George Saunders, 2017  Man Booker winner for Lincoln in the Bardo.Kamila Shamsie, Patti Smith, Kate Summerscale and Barbara Trapido. Abdulrazak Gurnah Gurnah was awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature

When Elizabeth Smart's 1945 poetic prose novel “By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept” was reissued in 1966, Angela Carter called it "Madame Bovary blasted by lightning," and Morrissey has since credited Smart's writing as having influenced his lyrics for The Smiths. This week's guests are biographer Rosemary Sullivan and documentary filmmaker Maya Gallus, both authorities on Smart's fascinating life and work.Discussed: People:Elizabeth Smart (Canadian author)Angela Carter (novelist and literary critic)Morrissey (musician, songwriter, and member of The Smiths)Rosemary Sullivan (biographer, author of "By Heart" - biography of Elizabeth Smart)Maya Gallus (filmmaker, director of "Elizabeth Smart: On the Side of the Angels" documentary)George Barker Books:"By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept" by Elizabeth Smart"Madame Bovary" by Gustave Flaubert"The Dead Seagull" - A book written by George Barker, which portrays his version of their love affair."The Assumption of Rogues and Rascals" - Also written by Elizabeth Smart, a companion piece to "By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept," where she reflects on her choices and life experiences.“O Caledonia” - A book by Elsbeth Barker, the final wife of George Barker, which will be discussed in a future episodeOther Entities:The Smiths (British rock band)Virago Press (feminist publishing house)Red Queen Productions (Maya Gallus' film production company)Charing Cross Road (famous street in London with many bookshops)The Book of Psalms (biblical text)Queen Magazine - The publication where Elizabeth Smart became the editor in 1965, bringing changes and giving a place to women writers.Other References:Song of Songs Mann Act - A law in the United States that prohibited the transportation of women across state lines for "immoral purposes," whicFor episodes and show notes, visit: LostLadiesofLit.com Follow us on instagram @lostladiesoflit. Follow Kim on twitter @kaskew. Sign up for our newsletter: LostLadiesofLit.com Email us: Contact — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast

Alexandra was Editor-in-Chief of Bloomsbury Publishing for 20 years and she is now Executive Publisher. She began her career on the art magazine Art Monthly and joined Virago Press in 1978 where she edited the Virago Modern Classics series, becoming Editorial Director in 1984. In 1990 she moved to Hamish Hamilton as Editorial Director and four years later left publishing to become a literary agent during which time her clients included Amanda Foreman, Geoff Dyer, Maggie O'Farrell and Ali Smith. She joined Bloomsbury in 1999. Her list of authors includes Margaret Atwood, Richard Ford, Esther Freud, Elizabeth Gilbert, Sheila Hancock, Khaled Hosseini, Celia Imrie, Nicole Krauss, Jhumpa Lahiri, Colum McCann, Anne Michaels, Ann Patchett, Hannah Rothschild, George Saunders, 2017  Man Booker winner for Lincoln in the Bardo.Kamila Shamsie, Patti Smith, Kate Summerscale and Barbara Trapido. Abdulrazak Gurnah Gurnah was awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature

In this new podcast, Mikaella talks with various guests about sex in The Local Sex Shop. Interviewees who draw from personal experience, as well as academic knowledge, will take turns on many of the subjects that human sexuality entail. But before delving into it any further, have we stopped to think what is sex, actually? Is it only a physical act? In the first episode, Mikaella and Carla (Bachelor Liberal Arts and Sciences; major in History, Master in Euroculture) go through the different angles that influence our perspectives; from culture, law, spirituality to Freud and mainstream media. Recommendations: Liv Strömquist. Kunskapens frukt. Ordfront/Galago 2014. (Engl. transl. Fruit of Knowledge, Virago Press 2018.) Katja Lewina. Sie hat Bock.[German] Dumont 2020. Podcast: The History of Sex: Gender and Sex Across World History If you have any comments, feedback or suggestions they are very much appreciated! To reach Mikaella, please send an email to hanzemag@org.hanze.nl with “The Local Sex Shop comment/feedback…” etc as a subject! About the hostess: Mikaella (she/her) comes from Cyprus. She is studying Psychology with a clinical direction as a Major and has Minor courses in English Language and Culture at the University of Groningen. She has been the Activity Coordinator of Let's Talk About Seks Groningen (LTAS) since 2021. Her passion for sex education stems from the realization of how little proper [sex] education is provided by our physical environments and how much shame is ingrained into us for our sexuality and sexual expression. With this podcast, she aims to give voices to local students and experts to fight this reality and start meaningful conversations!

In memory of the great Carmen Callil, we are replaying the first of her two appearances on Backlisted. Joining Andy and John in this episode is Carmen Callil, the legendary publisher and writer, who is best know for founding the Virago Press in 1972. Once described by the Guardian as ‘part-Lebanese, part-Irish and wholly Australian', Carmen settled in London in 1964 advertising herself in The Times as ‘Australian, B.A. wants job in book publishing'. After changing a generation's taste through her publishing at Virago, and in particular the Virago Modern Classics, which continues to bring back into print hundreds of neglected women writers, Carmen went on to run Chatto & Windus and became a global Editor-at-Large for Random House. In 2006 she published Bad Faith: A History of Family & Fatherland, which Hilary Spurling called ‘a work of phenomenally thorough, generous and humane scholarship'. Appointed DBE in 2017, she was also awarded the Benson Medal in the same year, awarded to mark ‘meritorious works in poetry, fiction, history and belles-lettres'. The book under discussion is one of her favourite novels, The Tortoise & the Hare by Elizabeth Jenkins, first published by Gollancz in 1954 and triumphantly reissued by Virago Modern Classics in 1983. Also in this episode we explore the new audio version of one our favourite writer's best novels - The Unfortunates by B.S. Johnson, famously published in a box containing 27 randomly ordered sections in 1969. And last but very much not least: this episode also features our very first canine guest - Effie, Carmen's extremely well-behaved border terrier. Timings: (may differ due to variable advert length) 8'10 - The Unfortunates by B.S.Johnson 21'16 - The Tortoise and the Hare by Elizabeth Jenkins * To purchase any of the books mentioned in this episode please visit our bookshop at uk.bookshop.org/shop/backlisted where all profits help to sustain this podcast and UK independent bookshops. * For information about everything mentioned in this episode visit www.backlisted.fm *If you'd like to support the show, listen without adverts, receive the show early and with extra bonus fortnightly episodes, become a Patreon at www.patreon.com/backlisted

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Dame Carmen Callil, who died in October this year, founded feminist publisher Virago Press in 1972 to promote women's writing. In this programme first broadcast in 2019, she tells Claire Bowes how she hoped to put women centre stage at a time when she and many others felt side-lined and ignored at work and at home. Music: Jam Today by Jam Today courtesy of the Women's Liberation Music Archive. (Photo: Dame Carmen Callil 1983. Credit: Peter Morris/Fairfax Media via Getty Images)

Sam salutes the great feminist publisher Carmen Calill, founder of Virago Press, and we dig into the Kingdom of Redonda and its literary legacy with Michael Hingston, author of Try Not to be Strange: The Curious History of the Kingdom of Redonda. 

An independent review launched after up to 15 babies died at a hospital trust will be published later this morning. The report into maternity services at East Kent Hospitals, which is expected to be "harrowing", examined up to 200 cases involving mothers and babies. The medical experts reviewed an 11-year period from 2009 at two hospitals in Margate and Ashford. Two mothers who lost their babies at a hospital trust at the centre of a maternity scandal say they felt they were blamed for the deaths. Earlier our presenter Krupa Padhi spoke to one of those mothers Helen Gittos as she and her husband Alan, and other families, waited to be allowed to read the report. They lost their daughter Harriet in 2014. The cartoonist Kate Beaton has written a memoir about her time working in the oil fields of Canada aged 21 to pay off her student debt. Her memoir 'Ducks' tells of her loneliness and vulnerability in the male-dominated space and the kindness she found there too. The dirty machinery and blasted landscapes alongside the Northern Lights inspired her as an artist and her book offers a rare insight into the lives of the people who surface our oil . Carmen Callil, the publisher and writer who championed female writers and transformed the canon of English literature, has died of leukemia aged 84. She founded the feminist imprint Virago Press, where she published contemporary bestsellers including Margaret Atwood and Maya Angelou. She worked with writers such as Angela Carter, Alan Hollinghurst and Toni Morrison. She was also the first publisher of Hilary Mantel. We discuss her life with chair of Virago Press, Lennie Goodings, a long-term friend and former colleague of the late publisher and writer. Child-free women in the 20-something age bracket are sharing videos outlining what their day-to-day lives look like as #StayAtHomeGFs on TikTok. The hashtag has garnered 170 million posts and refers to one partner in a relationship whose role is to stay at home to look after their breadwinner boyfriend who goes to work and funds their lives. The content appears to be quite aspirational for many. We discuss the trend with the digital culture commentator Hannah Van de Peer and Alex Holder, a personal finance expert and author of Open Up: Why Talking About Money Will Change Your Life. Google searches for sterilisation peaked in the US in the aftermath of the overturning of Roe v Wade – and the morning after pill sold out. It's even made some women rethink whether or not they want children, and reports suggest younger women are even considering permanent sterilisation so they can't become pregnant again. 23-year-old Olivia from Massachusetts joins Krupa, alongside USA correspondent Holly Honderich and NHS gynaecologist Dr Larisa Corda, to chat about the implications of female sterilisation. Presenter: Krupa Padhi Producer: Kirsty Starkey Interviewed Guest: Helen Gittos Interviewed Guest: Kate Beaton Interviewed Guest: Lennie Goodings Interviewed Guest: Hannah Van de Peer Interviewed Guest: Alex Holder Interviewed Guest: Holly Honderich Interviewed Guest: Dr Larissa Corda

In this week's episode, our guest is Lucy Scholes, author of the monthly column Re-Covered for The Paris Review and host of the Ourshelves podcast from Virago Press. We discuss Rosamond Lehmann's wonderful 1927 debut novel, Dusty Answer. Incredibly popular in its day, this book also caused quite the scandal—which we tell you all about, of course! 

Simon and Rachel speak with Lennie Goodings, chair of Virago Press. Born in Canada, Lennie came to Britain in the 1970s and joined Virago as a publicist in 1978. In subsequent roles—first in marketing, then as publisher—Lennie has worked with authors including Maya Angelou, Margaret Atwood, Sarah Waters and Linda Grant. She won the Bookseller's Industry Award for Editor and Imprint of the Year in 2010, a Lifetime's Achievement Award at the Women of the World festival in 2018 and was elected as an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2020. Her book, "A Bite of the Apple", a memoir-cum-history of Virago, was published in 2020 by Oxford University Press. We talked to Lennie about the early years of her career, the intimacy of editing a writer's work and how the business of feminist publishing has evolved. You can find us online at alwaystakenotes.com, on Twitter @takenotesalways, and on Facebook at facebook.com/alwaystakenotes. Our crowdfunding page is patreon.com/alwaystakenotes. Always Take Notes is presented by Simon Akam and Rachel Lloyd, and produced by Artemis Irvine. Our music is by Jessica Dannheisser and our logo was designed by James Edgar.

Hon sökte med ljus och lykta efter frihet och mening långt bort från det rotlösa och mondäna Europa, och fann den bland Saharaöknens nomader, vilka hon skildrade i sina väderbitna anteckningsböcker. En äventyrerska i manskläder i ett koloniserat Nordafrika vars liv kantades av sex, droger och islam. Litteraturväven berättar historien om Isabelle Eberhardt: Där De Sävliga Kamelerna Drar Förbi. Litteraturväven är ett program av och med Jonas Stål, med inläsningar av Beatrice Berg, Hanna Wintzell och Dick Lundberg. Isabelle Eberhardts porträtt är tecknat av Irem Babovic. KÄLLOR: [Litteratur] Bennett, Kirsty – From desire to discontent: Isabelle Eberhardt between cultures, University of Sussex (2013) Chouiten, Lynda – Isabelle Eberhardt and North Africa: a carnivalesque mirage, Lexington Books (2014) Eberehardt, Isabelle – Berättelser från Maghreb, Skarabé (1993) Eberhardt, Isabelle – The passionate nomad: the diary of Isabelle Eberhardt, Virago Press (1987) Eberehardt, Isabelle – Södra Oran, Skarabé (1993) Eberehardt, Isabelle – Vagabond, The Hogarth Press (1988) Kobak, Annette – Isabelle: the life of Isabelle Eberhardt, Virago Press (1998) Lindqvist, Sven – Ökendykarna, Bonniers (1990) Matthis, Moa – Pionjärer och feminister: om fyra kvinnliga författare och äventyrare, Nordtstedts (2006) Siljeholm, Ulla & Olof – Resenärer i långkjol, Carlssons Bokförlag (1996) [Artiklar] Soutine, Jai – Isabelle and the Dream of Liberty. Eberhardt Press Review, Spring 2005.

The indomitable Carmen Callil – mother of Virago Press, writer, publisher, fierce feminist, joyful crone, enraged person and self-proclaimed difficult woman – is one hell of a role model. And one hell of a writer. Callil's latest book, Oh Happy Day: Those Times And These Times, brims with eloquent rage as she delves into her ancestors’ lives to tell a gripping story of Empire and the poverty and injustice of 19th Century England, and how that led to her family's migration to Australia. It’s brimming with eloquent rage and truly wonderful. And as the title suggests – and as Carmen and Mickey discuss – those times aren’t so different from these times for a lot of people living in poverty in modern Britain. They also talk Virago, Angela Carter, rage, Thatcher, progress or its lack, going grey, and new books for your shelves. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/standardissuespodcast. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Welcome to the 2020 International Dublin Literary Award Shortlist podcast, presented as part of International Literature Festival Dublin. In this special podcast series, Caelainn Hogan and Jessica Traynor explore each novel in detail as they chat exclusively to the authors and translators shortlisted for the award, the winner of which will be announced on the 22nd of October. For the first time, the winner announcement will take place as part of International Literature Festival Dublin, which like the award, is sponsored by Dublin City Council. You can book your free ticket to attend the online awards ceremony at www.ilfdublin.com. In this episode, Caelainn and Jessica discuss 'The Friend', published by Virago Press, and speak to author Sigrid Nunez.

How much courage does it take to write?In this episode of OurShelves Lucy Scholes interviews Lennie Goodings, Chair of Virago Press and author of A Bite of the Apple. We dive into stories about Maya Angelou and Rosamond Lehmann, the origins of Virago Press in the seventies, the narratives that shape our lives and the authors who continue to inspire Lennie's work and personal life.Join us for a conversation about courageous women, beautiful prose and the nature of storytelling.Books discussed in this episode include:Flights by Olga TokarczukDrive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga TokarczukHome by Marilynne RobinsonJack by Marilynne RobinsonI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouMouth Full of Blood by Toni MorrisonWe Need Silence to Find Out What We Think by Shirley HazzardDifficult Women by Helen LewisA Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca SolnitHouse in Paris by Elizabeth BowenRecommended Article: That Discomfort You’re Feeling is Grief by Scott BerinatoHome - an essay from Mouth Full of Blood by Toni Morrison What to watch: Ella Fitzgerald: Just One of Those ThingsTune in next time for more conversation about books, feminism and culture. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Born on Lesbos, Greece, Eurydice is a multimedia artist and visionary whose body of work is infused with a consistent ideological and aesthetic study of female marginalization and objectification, and the dualisms of mind vs. body, of repressed vs. uninhibited sexuality in daily life, as these are influenced by history and displacement. Eurydice Eve is the author of Satyricon USA; A Journey Across The New Sexual Frontier (by Scribner , Simon & Schuster, & Touchstone); of f/32: The Second Coming (by Virago Press); of f/32 (by Fiction Collective) & is at work on her memoir The Lesbian, her novella Eurydice In Her Own Words, & her non-fiction book Speak Sex To Power. A live conversation about sex & intimacy, fact & fear, gender & patriarchy, Body-Mind-Soul. Real Sex, Real Talk. Transformational Education. We aim to launch a new collective language * all-inclusive cultural acceptance of articulate conscious sex. Interviews, news, truths. Be on the frontlines of the Sexual R/Evolution: Speak Sex! Eurydice is the inventor of scribal therapy and the founder of the Institute for Self-Satisfaction. Scribal Therapy is the focused daily practice of writing by hand in order to manifest self-knowledge & self-healing. Eurydice believes in words as alchemical symbols as well as signifiers. She is the author of three books on modern sexuality: Satyricon USA (Scribner), f/32: The Second Coming (Virago), f/32 (Richard Kasak & Fiction Collective II). She also wrote the Sex Files investigative series and advice column for Spin & Gear magazines. Eurydice has taught at the Ivy League Graduate level (Brown U Literary Studies) and at the homeless women’s shelter (Lotus House), in a women’s prison and a Syrian refugee camp. Her career, her philosophy and her daily life are focused on fostering evolutionary social change through personal transformational education. She has mentored hundreds of young people and has coached hundreds of adults into liberational self-discovery and fundamental life change through self-sourced social reconditioning. Eurydice Eve is the founder of The Institute for Self-Satisfaction, a Gurdjieff-inspired non-profit based in Florida, US, & of The Lost Genius Academy, a refugee-supporting NGO based on Lesbos Greece. She has initiated an archival body of women’s oral histories & has volunteered at the refugee camps on her native island & womens’ homeless shelters in Miami. Her Speak Sex Podcast has so far been part of her activist volunteerism in support of amplifying personal liberation. https://eurydice.net/ https://linktr.ee/speaksexpodcast https://www.instagram.com/eveeurydice/ https://www.instagram.com/artagainstall/ https://www.instagram.com/scribaltherapy/ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sexmagickanddessert/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sexmagickanddessert/support

Our first full-length episode! We're discussing Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier, published in 1938. We both picked up the Virago Press 2003 edition for this. What did you think of the book? Connect with us on Instagram @throughthepagespod!

In this episode of the Virago podcast editor Ailah Ahmed talks to Lennie Goodings about her book A Bite of the Apple - part memoir, part history of Virago Press and part thoughts on more than forty years of feminist publishing.Tune-in for Lennie Goodings, stay for the stories about Maya Angelou, Margaret Atwood and a life in publishing. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Today on Tea & Tattle Podcast, I’m joined by the editor and Chair of Virago Press, Lennie Goodings, to discuss Lennie’s debut book, A Bite of the Apple, which celebrates the joys of reading, writing and publishing and offers a unique look behind the scenes at an iconic feminist press. Lennie first joined the Virago team in the late ‘70s when she was newly arrived in London from Canada, and she writes about her extraordinary career with Virago, working with authors such as Maya Angelou, Margaret Atwood, Sarah Waters and so many other extraordinary women. Lennie shares openly about the challenges Virago faced in needing to turn a profit, but at heart being a deeply ideological company. Virago was integral in bringing feminist ideas and literature to the mainstream audience, and I was fascinated to read about the rise of feminism and also how post-feminism affected publishers like Virago.  I found A Bite of the Apple a deeply inspirational read, and it was such a privilege to talk to Lennie about her incredible career. This is the perfect episode for anyone interested in excellent literature and the world of publishing. Read the show notes: teaandtattlepodcast.com/home/128 Get in touch! Email: teaandtattlepodcast@gmail.com Instagram: @teaandtattlepodcast If you enjoy Tea & Tattle, please do rate and leave a review of the show on Apple Podcasts, as good reviews help other people to find and enjoy the show. Thank you!

CN: poor health (coughing) - NB this episode was recorded on the 24th May, 2019, before Coronavirus began to spread. Joining a slightly poorly Charles Adrian in Acton for the 127th Second-Hand Book Factory is Mum and facilitator of creative practice Stephanie Arsoska. They talk about creativity as an act of devotion, something nasty in the woodshed and the first poet of love. Correction: Charles Adrian misses out the all-important word “nasty” in the Stella Gibbons quotation “Something nasty in the woodshed”. If you are interested in Anne Carson’s translations of Sappho, you can also find some of these on Twitter, tweeted out by @sapphobot (https://twitter.com/sapphobot?lang=en). Sappho Bot posts every 2 hours and uses translations that include liftings from Anne Carson’s If Not, Winter. The residency on Lesvos where Charles Adrian and Stephanie spent some time in the summer of 2016 was run by Duende, whose artistic director is John Britton. You can find out more about their work here (http://www.duende-ensemble.com/). Recorded on the 24th May, 2019. Episode image is a detail from the cover of If Not, Winter by Anne Carson, published in 2003 by Virago Press; book design by Carole Devine Carson and Gabriele Wilson. More info and a link to a transcript of this episode is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/   Book listing: New And Selected Poems by Mary Oliver Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons If Not, Winter by Anne Carson

In honour of Equal Pay Day 2019, we welcome Carrie Gracie to the podcast. In this episode Carrie discusses her experience fighting for equal pay and her book, Equal, with Chair of Virago Press, Lennie Goodings.In January 2018, Gracie left her post as the BBC's China editor, following a career at the BBC that spanned more than three decades, in protest at unequal pay, publishing an open letter to BBC audiences and giving evidence before a parliamentary committee. Six months later, she won an apology from the BBC. She donated all her back pay to the gender equality charity, the Fawcett Society, to help low-paid women facing pay discrimination. She continues to serve as a BBC News presenter, and as a member of the 'BBC Women' group, she campaigns for a more equal, fair and transparent pay structure at the national broadcaster. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Moral philosopher Susan Neiman studies lessons from German & US history. Ursula Owen went from Virago to Index on Censorship. Christopher Hampton has translated an Ödön von Horváth novel about the fallout from an accusation of racism. Anne McElvoy brings them together for a conversation about tolerance, censorship and parallels between the past and the present. Written in exile while in flight from the Nazis, Youth Without God was the last book by Ödön von Horváth (1901-1938), a German-writing Austro-Hungarian-born playwright and novelist . Christopher Hampton's stage version has its UK stage premiere at the Coronet Theatre, Notting Hill London from 19 Sep–19 Oct Susan Neiman's latest book Learning from the Germans: Confronting Race and the Memory of Evil looks at western struggles with the legacies of racism and colonialism. A white girl from the American South, Susan Neiman is also a Jewish woman living in Berlin and the book draws on these experiences. Urusula Owen's parents were German Jews who fled Berlin for London. Her career has seen her work as a founder director of Virago Press and later as Chief Executive of Index on Censorship. Her memoir is called Single Journey Only. Producer: Harry Parker

Hon kom att bli en av Storbritanniens mest egensinniga och radikala författare med en omättlig fantasi, som dekonstruerade samtidens myter om kön, sexualitet och kvinnlighet. Litteraturväven berättar om Angela Carter: Kvinnan, Myten Och Fantasins Omättliga Rymd. Litteraturväven är ett program av och med Jonas Stål, med inläsningar av Beatrice Berg och Dick Lundberg. Angela Carters porträtt är tecknat av Irem Babovic. KÄLLOR: [Litteratur] Bristow, Joseph & Broughton, Lynn - The infernal desires of Angela Carter: fiction, femininity, feminism, Adisson Wesley Longman (1997) Carter, Angela – Cirkuskvällar, Brombergs (1985) Carter, Angela – Den magiska leksaksbutiken, Brombergs (1982) Carter, Angela – Den nya evas passion, Modernista (2019) Carter, Angela – Heroes and villains, Penguin Books (2011) Carter, Angela – Kvinnan hos de Sade, Forum (1981) Carter, Angela – Notes on the gothic mode (1975) Carter, Angela – Shadow dance, Virago (2014) Carter, Angela – Shaking a leg: collected writings, Penguin Books (1998) Carter, Angela – The bloody chamber, Penguin Books (2015) Carter, Angela – The infernal desire machines of doctor Hoffman, Penguin Books (1994) Carter, Angela – Truly, it felt like year one, ur Maitland, Sara – Very Haven: looking back at the 1960s, Virago Press (1988) Carter, Angela – Wise Children, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2007) Gordon, Edmund – The invention of Angela carter: a biography, Vintage (2016) Watz, Anna – Angela Carter and surrealism: a feminist libertarian aesthetic, Routledge (2017) [Artiklar] Acocella, Joan – Angela Carter’s feminist mythology, The New Yorker, 5 mars 2017 Carroll, Rosemary – Angela Carter, Bomb nr 17, 1 oktober 1986 Sage, Lorna – Angela Carter obituary: The soaring imagination, The Guardian, 17 februari 1992 [Nätet] Angela Carter: Interview for Marxism Today’s ”Left alive” Clapp, Susannah – Angela Carter in postcards Katsavos, Anna – A conversation with Angela Carter

This month Chair of Virago Press, Lennie Goodings, chatted to Katie Hickman about her new book: She-Merchants, Buccaneers and Gentlewomen: British Women in India 1600 – 1900. She-Merchants, Buccaneers and Gentlewomen is an extraordinary and illuminating book that tells the incredible stories of the first British women to set foot in India - 250 years before the Raj. In this landmark book, celebrated chronicler, Katie Hickman, uncovers stories, until now hidden from history: here is Charlotte Barry, who in 1783 left London a high-class courtesan and arrived in India as Mrs William Hickey, a married 'lady'; Poll Puff who sold her apple puffs for 'upwards of thirty years, growing grey in the service'; Mrs Hudson who in 1617 was refused as a trader in indigo by the East Indian Company, and instead turned a fine penny in cloth; Julia Inglis, a survivor of the siege of Lucknow; Amelia Horne, who witnessed the death of her entire family during the Cawnpore massacres of 1857; and Flora Annie Steel, novelist and a pioneer in the struggle to bring education to purdah women. For some it was painful exile, but for many it was exhilarating. Through diaries, letters and memoirs (many still in manuscript form), this exciting book reveals the extraordinary life and times of hundreds of women who made their way across the sea and changed history.Find out more: https://www.littlebrown.co.uk/titles/katie-hickman/she-merchants-buccaneers-and-gentlewomen/9780349008264/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Nesse episódio, falo sobre casas editoriais britânicas, dedicadas a resgatar clássicos escritos por mulheres. São elas, Virago Press, Persephone Books, e Honno Press. // Minhas redes sociais: https://linktr.ee/blankgarden // Página do podcast: https://semclassepodcast.wordpress.com // --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/julianabrina/message

Virago Press opened as a feminist publisher in 1972 to promote women's writing. Its founder, Carmen Callil, says she wanted both men and women to benefit from the female perspective. She tells Witness how she hoped to put women centre stage at a time when she and many other women felt sidelined and ignored at work and at home. Photo: Carmen Callil, 1983 (Photo by Peter Morris/Fairfax Media) Music: Jam Today by Jam Today courtesy of the Women's Liberation Music Archive.

Andy and John are joined by Carmen Callil, publisher, writer and critic and founder of Virago Press, to discuss The Tortoise and the Hare by Elizabeth Jenkins, a novel first published in 1954 and then republished by Carmen in the 1980s as a Virago Modern Classic. Producer Nicky Birch also talks about her work on a new interactive adaptation of B.S. Johnson's novel The Unfortunates for BBC and Amazon Alexa.

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Libby Purves meets wildlife presenter Steve Backshall; writer and academic Mary Chamberlain; pickpocket entertainer James Freedman and retailer Trevor Pickett. James Freedman is a pickpocket entertainer whose new show, Man of Steal, exposes how criminals operate and how people can avoid becoming victims of street crime. The show incorporates his sleight of hand trickery and reflects his lifelong study of criminology and the psychology of thieves. James is also an advisor and educator on the subjects of crime prevention and fraud - particularly the growing areas of bank card fraud and identity theft. Man of Steal is at the Menier Chocolate Factory, London. Mary Chamberlain is Emeritus professor of History at Oxford Brookes University. Her book, Fenwomen, was the first to be published by Virago Press 40 years ago and inspired Caryl Churchill's play Fen. When she was 23 Mary and her husband became involved with the anti-apartheid movement and were recruited as couriers for the ANC. The couple were part of a network of couriers around the world who, at great personal risk, smuggled anti-apartheid literature into South Africa. Her first novel, The Dressmaker of Dachau, is published by The Borough Press. Trevor Pickett is a retailer who sells a range of luxury leather goods from his store in London's Mayfair. After starting out as a Saturday boy in the family bicycle shop in Essex, he now runs Pickett which has sold a collection of fine goods ranging from handbags and briefcases to backgammon sets for the last 25 years. Pickett is at Burlington Gardens, London. Steve Backshall is a wildlife presenter and adventurer. During his career he has been charged by elephants, endured the stings of hundreds of bullet ants and encountered a hostile hippopotamus in South Africa. He also led the first ascent of Mount Upuigma in Venezuela, the first ascent of the North Face of Mount Kuli in Borneo, and explored new cave passages in New Britain and Sarawak. He is on tour to promote his novels, the Falcon Chronicles. The Falcon Chronicles are published by Orion Children's Books.

Melbourne prides itself on being the 'cultural and sporting capital of Australia'. It's a UNESCO City of Literature. As the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra perform at tonight's Prom concert the publisher Carmen Callil, founder of Virago Press, and novelist Helen Fitzgerald discuss Melbourne. The programme is presented by Rana Mitter and was recorded in front of an audience at the Royal College of Music as part of the BBC Proms. To find out further information about the events which are free to attended go to bbc.co.uk/proms