Claire Bowditch
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97 appearances
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 6 Aug
Claire Bowditch’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And she says that the women are the people that attacked her most.
I think she's left us a very interesting legacy because as we've touched on at various points in this programme, she is a mass of contradictions and several of her characters are masses of contradictions.
And there's a lot for people like us and people like your listeners to work out with her.
So, you know, we have the feminism and the royalism as sort of contradictory things.
We have characters in some of her fiction, you know, a nun who's also a bigamist.
People like that.
The courtesan who's the devoted woman.
So there's an awful lot that she has to say that...
captures the fact that we're not all one-dimensional.
We do have these kinds of contradictions about ourselves.
Ah.
And we actually did a reading of the... How did it go down?
In restoration plays, there were pauses between acts where there would be a musical interlude and so on.
Yes, which we don't have a modern equivalent for that.
So unless you compensate or adjust for the pace in some kind of way, and I actually disagree with John and think that the Rover did it very well at the RSC with various musical interludes.
But the whole kind of...
Yes.
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