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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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 15 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 6.
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But in fact, they could be allowed to serve as freely as anybody else and this legislation got through.
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He also put great store by an act which forbade discrimination against gays in the workplace, so they could not be turned down for jobs simply because they were gay.
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That was a great triumph for him.
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But when he looked back on his congressional career, he thought his best piece of work was actually on a financial reform called Dodd Frank.
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This had come about after the great subprime mortgage crash of two thousand eight to nine, when many, many ordinary people had found themselves with their homes foreclosed on, and the banks too going bust, everything collapsing, and a lot of money being owed to ordinary folk who had merely been trying to buy their homes, and he got together with Chris.
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Christopher Dodd, and between them they managed to put forward a massively detailed piece of legislation which restrained the banks from taking risks with lending.
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and they had just not to play fast and loose with the deposits that people had entrusted to them.
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At the same time, he tried to get extra protection for consumers and in the end twenty-one billion dollars was returned to people who'd lost out during the crash.
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The roof over his own head was now in Ogunquit, a town in Maine, where he lived with his husband Jim Reddy, and reflected on his long legislative career.
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He had done a great deal to fix in law all the things that had most concerned him when he went into politics.
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There wasn't yet a mandate against making kitchens really messy when you went in to have a snack, nor was there a mandate about tucking in your shirt.
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Nor sadly was there a mandate that people had to think the best of their government.
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But Barney Frank truly did.
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The stream is live!
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Walking down the street with Rahu Rai was sometimes quite a hard thing to do.
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One friend who was taking him to tea reckoned that in a ten minute walk, he stopped at least a hundred times to take a photograph.
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He saw what others didn't see and
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The way a shadow fell on a wall, the way a sari fell as a woman passed him.
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He noted too when a businessman went walking past looking proud and besuited and self satisfied, just at the same moment as a ragged beggar passed, going in the opposite direction.
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And he snapped that very telling portrait.
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