Sara Pascoe

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Sara & Cariad's Weirdos Book Club · Land by Maggie O'Farrell with Maggie O'Farrell · 11 Jun 2026 podcast

And that's interesting you mentioned Blackadder as well, because the way they treated World War I in Blackadder is like, it's very sensitive and very thoughtful and very critical of the things.

Yeah, I was like, it must have been.

Yeah, because it's a really horrific time period in Irish history.

It's not particularly taught in English history.

It's also so linked.

England is so culpable in that situation.

And when you look into the, you know, it relates to what was happening in England.

India with the East India Company as well the famine that happened over there that we also did with you ignored we ignored what was happening here we made it worse so these characters and the tension of working for the English as our our mapper is is doing because he doesn't have any other option hmm

It's a really, yeah, it's a really sad period, which is very recent.

Yeah, potatoes.

Potato blight.

Nothing to do with anyone else.

No, there's no political or social... Just a weird bacteria.

Wow.

Bullshit.

I smell bullshit.

Yeah.

Yeah, and I think when you look into anything British Empire, especially at that time period, I find it staggering that people walk around being

proud to be British when there are obviously there's amazing and I know that's a controversial statement but like there's so many things in history where you're like that's so terrible what you just said but it's just sort of known of like well yeah a million people like died in Ireland but then they all moved to America and they had a great time right like it's just this narrative is not owned properly of what the government did it's so disgraceful that's the importance of story isn't it the story you get told especially if you're told at a young age takes a really strong lodging yeah

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