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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Majan actually had to leave Iran, however, when she was fourteen.
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Her parents decided to send her abroad to finish her education because having been expelled, she was not doing anything much around the house.
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They sent her to a French school in Vienna, and off she went, and there, over five years, she grew into the
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what seemed to be a westerner, in fact she went rather overboard.
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She, of course, shed the veil.
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She dressed herself like a punk now.
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She slept around, she did drugs.
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She rather overdid the free and wild westerner.
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And yet inside she was still Iranian.
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She found herself increasingly ashamed at the life she was leading.
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She had imbibed enough of the modesty and all the repressions of an Islamic State to feel extremely uncomfortable.
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And so in the end, after five years, she decided she would have to go back to Iran.
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And there is a picture of her in Persepolis looking extremely sad as she ties on her veil, looks to herself in the mirror, and thinks there go all my individual and social liberties.
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The pictures are one of the reasons why Persepolis is such an attractive book.
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Marjan Satrapi was an extremely good graphic artist.
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She didn't like the word graphic for her books, she preferred to call them comic books.
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But she had a very simple style of drawing, rather like woodcuts, and with just a few nicks of her pen, she
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She could let the strongest emotions show through.
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She wouldn't have minded writing these books, but she did feel that drawing was man's first language, even before words.
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And therefore, if you really wanted to get something across, you had to use drawing and not writing.
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