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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You know, I didn't want to have a wedding because I didn't want my mother to not be there.
I didn't want to have a child because
because I didn't want that child to grow up in prison like I had.
And so I feel like one part of me did want to show this is a system that's impacting millions and millions and millions of people across this country.
And on the other hand, you have to show that people resist their own degradation and that they're vaster than the circumstances they're in, and they do fight for meaningful lives.
I did not campaign enough.
You know, my consciousness was entirely shaped by the knowledge that my mother would be in forever.
You know, one of the differences between me and my mother is that she wasn't in prison her whole life.
And I was, you know.
So if I, you know, if things happened when I was in, you know, coming to visit her and, you know, something happened and they made the visitors wait for hours outside in difficult conditions,
You know, my mother would say, you need to lodge a complaint.
You need to do something.
And I never would because I was institutionalized.
I did accept things as they were.
And I had accepted my mother was going to be in forever.
And I think I just couldn't ever really rouse myself to believe she was going to get out.
You know, in that way, I feel like of the many extraordinary changes brought about by my mother's release...
One is that I will never have the arrogance of thinking something is impossible again.
I had a fundamental skepticism that has now been humbled.
So when other things seem like they stand no chance, I kind of think, well, your mother got free.
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