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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So much is possible when people come together to try to make something happen.
No, she's never lived with me.
And actually, you know, I think that many people, my mother included, I think did expect that we would be making up for lost time, you know.
But actually, because I was so shaped by my mother's imprisonment, you know, it's like my whole life, my whole life as a child, as an adult, I could never call my mother, you know.
I have no memory of
of ever wanting to, of having something upsetting happen and wishing I could call her or having something exciting happen.
I just never, I knew I couldn't call her and I didn't want to call her.
And now, of course, she's like any mother and she's like, why don't you ever call me?
You know, so I think that maybe she and others thought, you know, now we would be together all the time.
But actually, it's like I'm kind of this awkward teenager having to learn for the first time how to, you know, get my mom to leave the house so I can drink with my friends.
I remember the last visit I had with my mother before I moved to California.
Yeah.
And I do remember feeling very heavy leaving.
You know, it wasn't just that every week of my growing up, I visited my mother in prison.
It was also that every week of my growing up, I left my mother in prison, you know.
So I have a very strong muscle memory of what it feels like to walk out of the visiting room
and down the hill, and you know, you're feeling the prison at your back, you're feeling your mother at your back, the women there, and they're this kind of like, presence you're carrying with you on the walk to the train, and on the train, and you're thinking of them, and you're thinking of them, until you're not, you know, until you're in the free world, and you forget to think about them.
And that's actually a terrible feeling.
And anytime I could get a ride from my mother's prison, I often would fall asleep, you know, so that I could kind of
wrap up my life inside with sleep and then wake up in the free world.
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