Charlotte Higgins
speaker
451 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 1 Sep
Charlotte Higgins’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But what what you can get to through art is is intimate, unofficial, and sometimes accessing very difficult emotions, guilt and shame.
So My Pet Spider had created a portal, effectively, where people could
write their confessions about their feelings that they they that they couldn't really talk about to anybody else.
You know, it was stuff like I I wish my dad would die because of his awful Soviet opinions or
I can't masturbate anymore.
That was one of them.
Or I would love to have lots of sex, but I just I have no sexual appetite because because there's a war you know.
Just just stuff that you can totally I I think you can completely r relate to, but it's so intimate.
It's so intimate.
And remember one of them was from a gay woman saying
Um I've I've left for Germany, I live in Germany now, and I I don't think I'll come back after the war because
I find that so much less there's so much less homophobia in Germany than there there was in Ukraine.
So, you know, these are things that you're not really supposed to say out loud or
in times of war where everyone is supposed to be super upbeat and pup and patriotic.
That this is the real stuff.
Coming up.
Well, what I will say is that my Ukrainian is uh not good enough to do reporting in.
I could do simple interviews in Ukrainian, but I can't express myself
to the nuanced level that I would want to
But
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