Sarah Pascoe
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2,157 appearances
11 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 4d ago
Sarah Pascoe’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He wants to be a writer.
Yeah.
It isn't just, okay, now you can walk through.
No.
But I think that's what she does that's so interesting is...
She's not, you know, the Stasi are obviously hideous, but she also talks about, there's this moment in the book where Petra, who's had Armando's child, is given free childcare and is able to go back to work.
She does show that there were certain things.
Yeah, everyone's going to university, unless you don't go into the Stasi, you have your own.
I had a teacher at school who was brought up in East Germany and she was a German teacher.
And she used to always say, like the image in the West was like, you know, they had nothing and it was awful.
It was all backwards.
But she was like, everyone I knew got a car.
Everyone I knew got a house.
Everyone I knew went to university and they had no debt.
So she was like, it was for some things, it was an extremely easy life.
And she talks about this in the book as well of like,
There isn't this crime because they're locking everyone up.
Places feel quite safe.
And you're very supported.
Childcare's amazing.
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