Kate Lister
speaker
7,698 appearances
37 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 2d ago
Kate Lister’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Uh but there might be people listening who don't know who Josephine Baker is.
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And normally what I'd say at this point is, tell us who Josephine Baker was, but I don't even know how you would condense that to a few sentences, but can you try?
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Who
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Who who was she?
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And she I mean, if you've never seen a picture of Josephine Baker, I urge you to Google her immediately, dear listener, because she is a sight to behold.
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She's the most incredible looking woman.
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But let's try and take it right back to where she was born.
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Because like as you said, rags to riches.
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And when you say rags, like you don't just mean people that maybe don't have enough to get by.
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This is real poverty.
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That she was born into.
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And we should remember as well that the America that Josephine was leaving was not particularly welcoming.
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Well, not welcoming at all to black people, to black women.
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This is the Jim Crow era.
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just about to ask you about that.
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Yeah.
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Oh yeah, she's playing with a colonial lens and kind of marketing herself because it was this sort of colonial fantasy that was sweeping Europe at the time as it was going around and conquering about, you know, quote unquote savage Africa.
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That was a big colonial fantasy that they were all having.
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We've got to go over there and civilize all of these people.
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And she was able to play right into that and
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