Stephanie Sakia
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113 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 29 Jun
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and it kind of represented a crystallization of a lot of my interests from my first book so I'm very interested in kind of institutions and like faith um but faith in a very very broad sense um
And here are these two people who, you know, kind of fell in love and in so doing kind of stuck it to the ultimate man by getting married in defiance of the Catholic Church.
And it just seemed like this beautiful love story, but then also this incredible story of kind of acting on your principles and living according to your conscience.
And.
So then and then also my grandmother was kind of sliding into dementia in that kind of slippery, erratic way that people sometimes do.
And so, again, as a as a form of preemptive grief, I suppose I really wanted to write about the person she had been and the person I knew her to be.
So it was a way of it was a way of meeting people.
a very painful demise and drawn out demise, I think, because I ended up being very involved in her care.
And so I wanted to really bear witness to that aspect of the end of her life, but then also acknowledge what had come before.
Well, I think if I'd had my head screwed on a bit tighter, I would have been a lawyer.
Because I do find that law is really fascinating to me.
And especially in, you know, legal environments like the one we have in the UK.
predicated on common law, which is just a baggy organic mess that is all based on precedent and stuff.
And if you look at some of the really landmark legislation that liberates women or people's sexualities in the 20th century, so legislation around abortion and the decriminalization of homosexuality,
These landmark cases, they hinge on the right to privacy, which I think in this day and age, we have lost sight of our right to privacy.
The generation that I teach, they don't even presume that they have that right in the first place.
The concept is kind of anathema to them, which I think is really concerning.
And I think what's driving certainly Margaret and then she kind of, you know, sweeps David along with her eventually is that she wants a private life.
And I think the thing that we forget about the Catholic Church is that it's actually an incredibly sophisticated piece of surveillance technology.
You know, the idea that you just have like a guy and you send one guy to every village and, you know, those guys are from quite a like
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