Arts & Ideas - Women, language & experience
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In a special programme looking ahead to International Women’s Day on March 8th, Shahidha Bari looks at how women express themselves in language, argument, poetry and art. Her guests include:
Sara Ahmed is the author of No is Not a Lonely Utterance
Karen McCarthy Woolf's latest poetry collection is called Unsafe
Lauren Elkin's books include Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art, she translated Simone de Beauvoir's previously-unpublished novel The Inseparables and has a new book coming out in May Vocal Break: On Women, Music, and Power. She has been reading the new translation by Sophie Lewis of Angst by the French feminist thinker Hélène Cixous
Mary Wellesley is a historian and author of Hidden Hands: The Lives of Manuscripts and Their Makers
Ash Percival-Borley, military historian and former soldier
Producer: Luke Mulhall
Published on Friday, 6th March 2026.
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