Dua Lipa
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2,000 appearances
10 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 16 Sep
Dua Lipa’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And I guess the complex relationships between the characters was very intentional on your part.
But what I found really fascinating and actually really moving was that all while the 12 characters have some degree of Native American heritage, each of them is questioning what it means to be.
One of the characters, Thomas Frank, says...
You're from a people who took and took and took and took and from a people taken.
You are both and neither.
When you took baths, you'd stare at your brown arms against your white legs in the water and wonder what they were doing together in the same body in the same bathtub.
I mean, I just found that such a powerful image.
One of the inescapable central themes is addiction, alcohol in particular.
And literally everyone is affected, you know, seeing how all the promise in their lives get degraded and destroyed is just devastating.
Going back to the stereotypes that you shatter in the prologue, this isn't some quirk of...
Native American genetics as it's to do with the legacy of centuries of abuse and dispossession.
You know, there are some very difficult scenes that take place during the Native American occupation of Alcatraz, including the rape of Jackie Redfeather
by another teenager who's on the island with his family.
And I'll come back to that in a moment because I feel like it's really important, but the contrast in the scenes between the intention of the occupation and the reality really struck me.
It's essentially a protest camp and a really unsafe place for Jackie and her sister Opal.
Can you tell us a bit about the real-life occupation?
Yeah let's let's talk about Jackie and her character a bit more because decades later she runs into her rapist Harvey in a AA meeting and they go on this kind of unexpected journey together both literally and metaphorically and this must have been a really quite sensitive storytelling path to to navigate can you expand on it a little bit how did you do that?
I also want to talk about Tony Loneman.
He's such a pivotal character in the book, and I mean, the book starts and ends with him, really.
And he was born with fetal alcohol syndrome, and has spent all his young life as an outsider.
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