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Ourshelves

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Frequency: 1 episode/28d. Total Eps: 76

Ourshelves is a place where writers from the legendary feminist publishing house Virago will talk about their cultural worlds. Host Lucy Scholes will be diving into writers’ bookshelves, record collections and recollections to discover what inspires them.

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12/12/2024
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Ourshelves with Rachel Seiffert

Season 6 · Episode 10

Monday, November 13, 2023 • Duration 59:37

Rachel Seiffert is one of Virago's most critically acclaimed contemporary novelists. She has published four novels and one collection of short stories. Her novels have been shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Dublin Impac Award and longlisted three time for the Women’s Prize for Fiction. In the finale episode of this season of Ourshelves, Rachel and Lucy discuss the lasting power of individual Jewish women’s resistance and endurance during WWII, the added weight of historical fiction inspired by real events, and the pleasures of rewatching TV series.

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Ourshelves with Annie Hodson

Season 6 · Episode 9

Thursday, October 26, 2023 • Duration 41:02

Annie Hodson is a queer writer and playwright from York, and one of the 40-strong cohort of the London Library’s 2022-2023 emerging writers’ programme. She has just won the Virago short story competition, with her story ‘Banshee’, which will appear in the paperback of Furies in spring 2025. Lucy and Annie dive into Annie’s earliest introduction to Virago through her aunt’s vast collection of ‘green spines’, the joy of bookclubs and the weird and wonderful power of Barbara Loden’s film, ‘Wanda’.

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OurShelves: Witches with Shahrukh Husain

Season 5 · Episode 12

Friday, October 28, 2022 • Duration 48:05

Shahrukh Husain, editor of The Virago Book of Witches, who says it represents ` womanhood in all its complexity’ is not at all surprised to see a resurgence of interest in `all things witchy’. The witch knows her strength, defies authority and embodies our current fears of injustice. Shah tells Lucy how the witch can be playful but also terrifying, particularly to men, and about a childhood fascination for the witch. The writer she admires is Attia Hussain, author of Sunlight on a Broken Column, who she remembers was` so joyful’ to know Shah was writing. She, alongside Shah’s mother taught her that her cosmopolitan background – Pakistani, Indian, English – was her strength and made her ` a citizen of the world’. They are Shah’s heroines.

Shahrukh's recommendations:

On the nightstand: Dame Joan of Pevensey by Rev. E E Crake

On my mind: the TV-series The Split with Nicola Walker

On the shelf: Sunlight on a Broken Column and Phoenix Fled by Attia Hossein

On the pedestal: My mother, who worked hard for women's rights and the reform of family laws pertaining to women's rights in Pakistan soon after its inception in 1947

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OurShelves: Caribbean voices with Sharma Taylor

Season 5 · Episode 11

Friday, August 19, 2022 • Duration 38:13

In this special bonus summer episode Sharma Taylor, author of What a Mother’s Love Don’t Teach You, takes us to the heated demi-monde of Kingston, Jamaica, in the 1980s, a turbulent time in politics and gangland crime. She tells Lucy Scholes about writing in patois; the Caribbean authors right now who are representing the strength of women in society; and what her mother sacrificed to buy her books as a child.

On the nightstand: The Bread the Devil Knead by Lisa Allen-Agostini

On my mind: The podcasts Unstoppable Yes You and Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival Cocoa Pod

On the shelf: This One Sky Day by Leone Ross

On the pedestal: My mother.

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OurShelves: Barbara Pym with Clare Chambers

Season 5 · Episode 10

Friday, June 10, 2022 • Duration 37:09

Clare Chambers is the author of nine novels including Small Pleasures, which was longlisted for the Women’s Prize. She joins Lucy Scholes to rave about the inimitable Barbara Pym, a Virago Modern Classic author whose love affairs shocked sixties society and who wrote about vicars’ tea parties with waspish humour and moving brilliance. (Tea: ‘a drink she did not much like because of the comfort it was said to bring to those whom she normally despised.’) Together they compare notes on adapting book to screen with Sally Rooney’s Conversations with Friends, how to evoke the inner voice and the recent, genre-defying book that made Clare think about feminism in a new way.

On the nightstand: The Exhibitionist by Charlotte Mendelson and Iron Curtain by Vesna Goldsworthy.

On my mind: The TV adaptation of Conversations with Friends.

On the shelf: In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado.

On the pedestal: Fiona Spargo-Mabbs, director of the DSM Foundation, which educates young people to make safer choices around drugs.

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OurShelves: Taking ownership with Cathy Thomas

Season 5 · Episode 9

Friday, May 27, 2022 • Duration 39:40

How does writing about your life change the way you see it? Cathy Thomas talks to Lucy Scholes about her first book, Islanders, interlocking short stories set on her childhood home, Guernsey – the pleasure of joining the dots and how playwriting informed her structure. Discovering a shared love of Annie Ernaux’s essays, they dive deeply into whether difficult experiences – from publisher rejections to trauma – may be reframed through the power of writing.

On the nightstand: We Were Young by Niamh Campbell

On my mind: Olivia Fitzsimons' recent essay, Notes on Resilience, for The Stinging Fly

On the shelf: Annie Ernaux's A Girl's Story.

On the pedestal: playwright Caryl Churchill

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OurShelves: Listening with Stuart Evers

Season 5 · Episode 8

Friday, May 13, 2022 • Duration 01:02:03

How can men approach their role as feminist allies? Lucy Scholes meets Stuart Evers, award-winning author of four books including Your Father Sends His Love and The Blind Light as they discuss his introduction to the new Virago Modern Classic edition of Anna Seghers’ brilliant novel Transit, and how its depiction of people caught in the Second World War reminded him of Ukrainians caught in the complex British visa system. He argues about whether Transit is a love story or not, challenges himself to read books he thinks he’ll hate (and falls for them completely) and remembers as a young man how reading feminist novels taught him to listen.

Stuart’s recommendations:

On the nightstand: Lapvona by Ottessa Moshfegh and Sleepless Nights by Elizabeth Hardwick

On my mind: Post War Modern art exhibition at the Barbican

On the shelf: Gorilla My Love, Toni Cade Babara

On the pedestal: Marguerite Duras

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OurShelves: Voice with Katie Hickman

Season 5 · Episode 7

Friday, April 29, 2022 • Duration 01:00:33

What does it take for a woman to migrate thousands of miles across prairies and mountains? Join Katie Hickman, author of Brave Hearted and She-Merchants, Buccaneers and Gentlewomen as she talks with Lucy Scholes about the unique voices of the women who made the Wild West, the strength of oral storytelling and the damage that was done to abortion rights in the USA by religious organisations. From the Americas to Indonesia, the discovery of precious materials has meant a death sentence for indigenous tribes and they discuss the impact of mining on people’s lives and the women who fought to make them better.

Katie’s recommendations:

On the nightstand: Dear Life by Alice Munro and One Thousand and One Nights retold by Hanan Al-Shaykh.

On your mind: Things Fell Apart: strange tales from the culture wars by Jon Ronson (BBC)

On the shelf: Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver

On the pedestal: Mama Yosepha Alonmang. Now in her eighties, this remarkable woman is an Amungme (West Papua) Tribal Leader who has been fighting all her life against environmental destruction of her Tribal lands from mining.

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OurShelves: Taboos with Kate Maxwell

Season 5 · Episode 6

Friday, April 15, 2022 • Duration 35:04

What happens if you don’t fall in love with your baby at first sight? Join Kate Maxwell and Lucy Scholes as they challenge silent taboos about motherhood, from Elena Ferrante’s The Lost Daughter to Kate’s first novel Hush, about a woman who struggles with her decision to have a child on her own.

Kate’s recommendations:

On the nightstand: What I Loved, Siri Hustvedt and The Bread the Devil Knead, Lisa Allen-Agostini

On your mind: WeCrashed, Apple TV series

On the shelf: Matrix, Lauren Groff

On the pedestal: Josie Naughton, Choose Love co-founder and CEO

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OurShelves: Beauty with Chloé Cooper Jones

Season 5 · Episode 5

Friday, April 1, 2022 • Duration 01:04:44

If you spend 288 pages deep in the life of a disabled person, can that experience shift your concept of disability? Join Chloé Cooper Jones, journalist, Pulitzer nominee and author of the new memoir Easy Beauty, as she talks with Lucy Scholes about how beauty can create a powerful mental shift. They discuss the social and political act of making the disabled body visible, the meaning of staring and ask Lewis Hamilton to teach Chloé Formula 1 Racing.

Chloé’s recommendations:

On the nightstand – The Coward by Jarred McGinnis and Staring by Rosemarie Garland-Thomson

On your mind – Drive to Survive, the Formula One racing documentary.

On the shelf – Gretel Ehrlich's The Solace of Open Spaces

On the pedestal – Harriet McBryde Johnson, a writer and disability activist.

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