Today we speak to the author of What Red Was, Rosie Price, about her writing practice, her favourite books and T.V. shows as well as her guiltiest pleasure and her next novel! We discuss getting into the writing mood, the links between yoga and writing, nervous pooing, as well as the moral incentive behind watching Love Island. We had so much fun and we highly recommend her novel What Red Was!
CW: Sexual assault.
Solace Women’s Aid, Rape Crisis and Mind are all organisations we would point you towards if you are in need of support.
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See below for a full list of what we discuss:
What Red Was by Rosie Price
The Wire created by David Simon
The Sopranos created by David Chase
Peaky Blinders created by Steven Knight
Promising Young Woman written and directed by Emerald Fennell
Elle directed by Paul Verhoeven and written by David Birke
The Body Keeps The Score by Bessel van der Kolk
Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers by Robert M. Sapolsky
Sally Rooney
Love Island
In the year to the end of March 2020, 58,856 cases of rape were recorded by police forces in England and Wales. These led to just 2,102 prosecutions, compared with 3,043 in the previous 12 months. Victims' commissioner Dame Vera Baird said in her annual report that the level of prosecutions has got so low that "what we are witnessing is the de-criminalisation of rape". https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-48095118
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!
