Harriet Clark
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460 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 15 Aug
Harriet Clark’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Unlike Susanna, I continued to have a relationship to the women in my mother's collective.
I had a half-sister, and so I returned to that collective every three weeks for the weekend.
And they were still very actively political.
And so I did grow up inside a far more political atmosphere than Susanna does now.
She's really in the aftermath of politics.
And I grew up inside active organizing.
So I think I did understand something about the particular movements and
commitments they had.
But again, for 40 years, every conversation I ever had with my mother occurred in a crowded room that was surveyed by officers or on a phone line that was recorded.
And so we didn't have the privacy
to talk about some of the things that might have been hardest to talk about.
And for most of my life, you know, my mother had to make prison a place I wanted to come to.
You know, our visits had to be enjoyable.
And so in that sense, too, it was very rare that we were sitting there getting into the nitty gritty of her crime, especially when I was young.
You know, fundamentally, she was trying to play with me and have fun with me and let me feel close to her.
I think fundamentally the prison looked to me like a hill.
It's hard for me...
to remember what the prison looked like to me as a child because I went there for almost 40 years, and it changed a lot in that 40 years.
It became much more prison-like.
It had initially been a reformatory for women, and so they would have, when I was very young, these brick buildings that actually didn't look too terrifying.
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