Ros Ballaster
speaker
171 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2026
last heard 6 Aug
Ros Ballaster’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So she says other playwrights are just as bawdy as me.
They don't get this kind of trouble.
So Walter Scott... Although one can't help but think about the fact that Walter Scott's making the novel in the early 19th century, so he's sorting it out.
OK, I will get to the point.
So Walter Scott has a great aunt who says to him, you know, I used to love these stories by Aphra Behn.
Can you get hold of a few for me?
So he's a bit surprised.
He goes off, finds them.
He sends them to her in brown paper because they're kind of a bit embarrassing to send.
She writes back, sends them back and says...
these are appalling.
I can't believe I like these.
She said, 60 years ago, I sat in company and we read these out loud and we loved them.
And now I see just how crude they are.
Yes.
And it's a complicated question, isn't it?
Because one might sort of think, well, does this mean that women are being re-contained in the 18th century?
But in a way, they're just being rethought as, in a way, moral agents.
They're responsible for the moral credit of the nation.
And Ben is seen as someone who discredited the morality of the nation very publicly in the late 18th century.
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