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.
Appearances
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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Barney Frank never really knew what it was to be in the majority.
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For a start he was left handed and that accounted perhaps for the horrible mess he seemed to drop on himself whenever he went out to lunch somewhere.
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Also he was Jewish and that was not a very useful fact for making a career when he was growing up in Bayonne, New Jersey, heavily Catholic city, also quite full of the mafia.
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A third way in which he was in a distinct minority was that he was someone who really believed in government.
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He had always thought that government was essential for helping everyone who was on society's losing side, and he'd felt that ever since he was a boy, when he'd been really startled by the racist lynchings in the South.
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He was gay, but not many people knew that as he was coming up through the political system, and he hoped no one would have to know about that.
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Because to be gay meant that you couldn't marry, that you couldn't join the army, that maybe you couldn't do the job you wanted to do.
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And when he went to Washington, part of the reason why he suddenly decided that the Fourth District of Massachusetts would be just right was that it would give him a chance to have a very full and thriving gay social life down in DC, well out of the way of the eyes of his constituents.
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It thoroughly frustrated him that in fact in the matter of being gay, his whole life was ruled by this central dishonesty, as he called it.
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