Jan Carson
speaker
829 appearances
3 recordings
3 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 14 May
Jan Carson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So poor Robert John is like in his 50s and he doesn't know how to be a man anymore.
Yeah, absolutely.
And I think that my reason behind magical realism is often to...
And for readers who think they know the story and there's been a lot written about the troubles, you need to do something to make them wake up and pay attention.
And I love it when readers are grappling with these magical things.
What does it mean?
Like what happens then?
Because they're thinking about it and they're deciding for themselves.
And to me, that's a deeply respectful thing to give back to my readers.
You have the intelligence to decide what this means yourself.
I didn't have that growing up.
I had a man on a pulpit or I had a man on a podium telling me how to think and to vote.
Do you know, I went to see... Were you very politically aware?
No, I didn't even know the Good Friday Agreement was happening.
We were entirely apolitical and it wasn't mentioned in the school I went to, which still feels like a big, deep hurt kind of thing.
But I went to see, there's a wonderful play on the Mac in Belfast at the minute about the Women's Coalition and their role in the Good Friday Agreement.
And there's a line where they say...
We need to get these things through because we don't want to be sitting here in 27 years with schools unintegrated and, you know, a list of women who are victims of domestic violence and the peace wall still up.
And it's shocking because, you know, that is where we're sitting.
Does it shock you, the level of, you know, femicides?
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