Harriet Clark
speaker
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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Thank you.
My mother had robbed a bank, the first woman said.
No, the second woman said.
My mother had expropriated funds for the purpose of revolutionary struggle.
The woman's tone suggested that she was possibly defending my mother and possibly mocking her.
When my grandfather emerged dazed and swollen, it did not seem right to press for explanation.
But he must have heard what the woman said, or the anesthesia must have caused his mind to wander, because on the drive home he spoke to me for the first time about my mother's crime.
A misguided attempt, he called it, to steal from the rich and give to the poor.
Then an elaborate explanation of the insurance mechanisms of banks, and further clarification that many people had money in banks, not just the rich.
When this lecture got into the weeds, he shifted gears into another regarding imperialism, racism, militarism, also materialism, all the things he said that he and my mother opposed, and that, he assured me, I opposed as well.
His face was very close to the steering wheel.
Your mother took it too far.
I don't have a memory of coming into awareness of my mother's crime.
It must have been explained to me, but I don't recall who explained it.
My mother made clear from when I was very young that she was in prison because she had been part of something that cost three men their lives.
So I think I knew from before I even knew what I knew
that people had died and that my mother was in prison because of that.
And she, in that sense, always raised me to understand that in some ways she was guilty and that was why she was in prison and that she would always be there.
But I'm not actually sure who explained to me the details of the crime.
Yes and no.
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