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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In fact he thought it was blocking growth.
But all the same, when he produced his memoirs, it was clear that he was beginning to wonder whether he had kept the sure touch that he had seemed to have in the nineteen nineties and indeed long before it.
It seemed, possibly, that the man who had always gone by the numbers had not read them quite so well as before.
Perhaps there were, after all, some sour notes in a career that had seemed to make the American economy sing.
It all happened when Marjan Satrapi was ten years old.
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She went to school one day and was handed a veil and told she had to wear it.
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She had no idea why, nobody had explained.
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This was a secular school and there'd never been any restriction of this sort before.
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But it was nineteen seventy nine, and this was the Islamic Revolution suddenly coming to Iran, and this was the first sign of it.
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And the first picture of Ma Jeanne, or Margi, as she's known throughout the book, is of a very grumpy looking a ten year old girl having to wear this veil.
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The whole world in the end became enchanted by this book Persepolis.
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It soared in millions, and it was so extraordinary to hear for the first time a voice coming out of Iran that was rebellious, especially a woman's voice.
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She spoke her mind always.
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It was partly how she had been brought up.
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Her parents were Marxist, they were middle class, they had a maid.
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Life wasn't difficult before the Ayatollahs started coming in.
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At any rate, she told the teachers in school what she thought of them as soon as they began to impose Islamic law on her, and that got her expelled.
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There was nothing wrong, surely, in going out and walking in the street in a denim jacket and tight trousers that her parents had bought for her.
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Why shouldn't she encourage the maid to go on protest marches like she did?
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And why couldn't she go out at night and buy Iron Maiden tapes that were being sold by rather dodgy men on Gandhi Avenue out of suitcases?
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