Charlotte Higgins
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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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Even in the first sentence that we shared together there is a sense of loss and longing for home, actually.
There's so much in just a simple phrase.
Yeah, I'm I'm chief culture writer of The Guardian, which means that for years and years and years I've done although I've worked internationally a lot, it has absolutely never been in an active war zone before.
So yeah, I had very little idea what to expect.
I think what at the point that I was going to Ukraine for this first trip, September twenty twenty two
Kiev had been extremely quiet and by quiet this is the code word for no bombing attacks for several months.
Everyone was saying it will be fine, it is fine.
Uh it wasn't fine in the sense that there was a a very serious uh and um deadly cruise missile attack the morning I arrived, which was a sort of baptism of fire really.
And every time I've come home.
I've always come home with ideas that I want to do next time and that that continues.
So I was there
In June and I'm going back next month already with a pocket stuff full of ideas.
As a writer on culture, I just felt that there would be something somehow wrong about not being able to understand even a word of Ukrainian.
And I suppose I self identify as a linguist in some way, but I learnt Latin and Greek at university.
But I learnt these languages that are wonderful for reading but nobody speaks.
So I do have this slight obsession with.
I can read the
original, but Yeah.
I can read the Odyssey.
I can read the Odyssey and the Iliad in the original, given a bit of time to work up my rusty um Greek.
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