Alex has been reading up on the origins of the feminist term Bluestocking, originally used to describe a man - typical - before telling us about the charming instagram-famous novel 'Hamnet'. Rhiannon delves into a new Tom Hanks film, tracing the history of news readers and translating that to today’s news sources. Alex has been reading ‘The Ungrateful Refugee’ and postulates on what it means to be a refugee. Meanwhile, Rhiannon has been reading ‘Cilka’s Journey’, diving into a passionate discussion about the lack of consent in imprisoned sex work but despite this, the blame that is attributed to women in these situations. We end with a few podcast recommendations to charm your ears.
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Content Warning: rape and sexual violence during the discussion on 'Cilka's Journey' from 30 minutes.
See below for a full list of what we discuss:
Blue Stockings by Jessica Swale
Brilliant Women: 18th-Century Bluestockings by Elizabeth Eger and Lucy Peltz
Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
News of the World
The Ungrateful Refugee: What Immigrants Never Tell You by Dina Nayeri
The Good Immigrant edited by Nikesh Shukla
Cilka’s Journey by Heather Morris
The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
Tom Allen on The Adam Buxton Podcast
Strippers in the Attic podcast
The Grand Thunk, the podcast in which Alex Blanchard and Rhiannon Kearns discuss the books they've been reading, the films and TV shows they've been watching and the podcasts they've been listening to!
