Melissa Auf der Maur
speaker
1,702 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Mar 2026
last heard 11 Mar
Melissa Auf der Maur’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So he was both, like, remarkable and impossible.
And he, you know, I grew up on the campaign trails, you know, election nights.
He was proud.
He was an independent and he founded about 10 different Montreal independent movement parties.
And every time he left a party, they'd say, Nick, you're so inconsistent.
He's like, the parties change.
I don't change.
And his thing was entirely the people have the power.
Corporate government don't trust them.
So he was just like he was a radical socialist who wanted to fight for the people.
So my father injected me with all the political, public-facing stuff, and my mother injected me with the, no man is ever going to define who you are.
Yes.
She had me as a single mother because she didn't tell my father I was born until I was two.
So they had a romantic weekend.
She had what she wanted.
And before I met my father, I had lived in a circus caravan in Wales, a British post office truck in Morocco, and a hut in Kenya, Africa with chimpanzees.
My mother was a radical independent psychologist.
hippie woman who brought her little girl on that trip.
And I spent my second birthday, St.
Patrick's Day, 1974, in Africa.
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