Ann Wroe
speaker
865 appearances
15 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 21 Aug
Ann Wroe’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The Intelligence from The Economist · The Elon game: Musk’s vision of the future · 24 Jul 2026
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But after that she took on the fishermen who were using dynamite.
And she managed to succeed in
In getting to stop.
Then she tried to stop the developers.
She lectured the local mayors and told them that they ought to make the beach into a reserve, and the mayors did so, and she even went up to UN peacekeepers and told them that they must not throw their rubbish into the sea anymore.
And her interaction with those peacekeepers was a reminder that war was a constant presence as well as all the other hazards that these turtle hatchlings faced.
In the war of twenty oh six when Israel invaded Lebanon, the house, which she had painted orange and which was now called the Orange House, had been hit, and eventually she and her friend Habiba decided to flee to Beirut.
They very quickly came back, but there was now a military presence there.
And they found there was actually a checkpoint right beside the orange house.
Where people who came to stay would have to clear security first.
And this was rather a shame because the house was such an oasis of Khan, otherwise.
When the latest Israeli attacks happened.
She had taken the decision that she would never leave the place again.
She would not go to Beirut.
She would stay there in her dream place.
She actually made a statue for her garden out of the Israeli shells that had fallen on her house before.
and barricaded herself inside it.
There was no other heaven but this place.
It was her patch.
To which he had to return.
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