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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It was hard to keep a fun face all the time though when writing about her country, and it did seem to get dark very frequently.
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And in the most harrowing part of Persepolis, which is when she goes to a house of a friend of hers, a Jewish friend, called Neda.
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The house has just been bombed by an Iraqi missile and she notices a turquoise bracelet in the rubber which was
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Needers.
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And as she looks at it she realizes it's still attached to something.
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She doesn't look any more, but at that point even the drawings have to give out and there's a panel that's completely black.
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The main point of her writing, though, in the end, had been to explain Iran to the West.
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She felt this was extraordinarily important.
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It seemed to her that America in particular just did not understand Iranians.
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It thought that they were either peasants or terrorists, and they could be summed up in the phrase a veil, a beard, and a nuclear weapon.
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That was all Iran meant to them.
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She wanted America to understand that Iranians were also modern educated people, that most of them lived in cities, and that they were not represented by their government.
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She hoped that they would hear.
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Her first book had begun with a drawing of herself as a disgruntled ten-year-old girl.
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Her last in 2024.
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Щод а кроуд вен.
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All shouting their defiance against the regime.
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Their long hair was shining and cascading.
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They were shouting as loudly as they could.
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But sadly, the loudest voice of all is now missing.
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