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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And I remember very much the visit where I was leaving my mother to move to California.
And I remember wanting very much to be able to fall asleep, of kind of wanting a break from this consciousness before I woke up in the next one.
Did you know your father?
Yes.
Not really when I was young.
He was underground when I was very young.
And then he was in prisons where I very minimally visited him until I was 12.
So I really only got to know him when my grandmother was dying.
Yes, and I feel very grateful about that because throughout my whole childhood, you know, he was supposed to initially just be my sperm donor.
He had never signed on to be my father.
It was only once my mother was in prison and my...
father was underground, that the collective and the parents involved decided my sister and I should have each other.
And so for most of my life, I referred to him as my sister's father, which for the most part I still do.
But he was a really incredible man.
He had incredible courage and
And he was very different from my mother.
And so I think that when he first got out and came into my life, he had a very different analysis of their behaviors and a different relationship to politics than my mother did.
And initially, I think that that was hard for me, but I feel very grateful now to have had
Both their influences and to, I mean, he had had cancer when he was inside multiple times.
And, you know, if he hadn't been a doctor, the way they treated him would have killed him.
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