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🗓️ 17 August 2023
⏱️ 64 minutes
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When Polly Toynbee arrived at The Observer in the late 1960s, she quickly concluded that she'd make a poor news reporter. Hailing from a long line of well-heeled and highly educated liberals and social reformers, Polly surmised that she didn't know enough about the country she'd grown up in. Since then, Polly has worked in factories, hospitals and care homes, shedding light on the nature of work and class. Now regarded as one of the country’s best journalists, her latest book, An Uneasy Inheritance: My Family and Other Radicals tracks her genealogy and takes a deep dive into what it means to be privileged in Britain.
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0:00.0 | If I had to picture a moment of calmfulness, it would have to be at the beach. |
0:05.0 | On the edge of the sand, with the waves at my toes, what's yours? |
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0:22.1 | This is a Global Player Original podcast. |
0:32.8 | Hello and welcome to Full Disclosure, a podcast project conceived entirely to let me spend more time with interesting people than I would ever get on the radio. |
0:42.5 | Polly Toinby, this week's guest, welcome. |
0:44.6 | I mean interesting barely touches the sides, does it? |
0:49.1 | I'm glad you think so. |
0:50.4 | Well, I just sort of your memoir, my family and other radicals, is |
0:55.1 | unbelievable. If you've just leaped through |
0:58.0 | the index, it's basically a who's who |
0:59.8 | of about 150 years of |
1:01.6 | liberal intelligentsia |
1:04.5 | and, well, |
1:06.1 | and the rest of it. Did you know when you |
1:08.0 | sat down to write it quite how |
1:09.6 | remarkable your family tree was? Did you know every tw sat down to write it quite how remarkable your family tree was? |
1:11.6 | Did you know every twig? I pretty much did because they've all written books themselves, |
1:16.7 | which makes writing a book much easier because they're all there. They wrote obsessively. It wrote a lot. |
1:23.7 | And it is a long radical tradition and it has been passed on from generation to generation. |
1:29.3 | I think we're all very aware of it. |
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