now on bbc news, this cultural life: margaret atwood. margaret atwood.the world's best—selling critically acclaimed authors, she's published more than 60 books, and has won the booker prize twice. the winner of the first booker prize of the 21st century, margaret atwood. cheering and applause. her stories often centre on oppression and brutality. most famously, her 1985 novel, the handmaid's tale, a dystopian vision of america, in which women are enslaved. now an emmy award—winning television series. there's an eye in your house. in this episode of this cultural life, the radio 4 programme, she reveals her formative influences and experiences. and how even in high school, her creativity was clear. i put on a home economics opera. it was about fabrics. can you remember how it goes? # fabrics need a swim in the suds. # it makes them feel just like new. # plink—plink, plink—plink. i want to make sure the mics are recording us. margaret atwood, welcome to this cultural life. thank you very much. happy to be here. on this programme, i ask my guests to choose

this cultural life: margaret atwood. margaret atwood. of the world's best—selling, critically—acclaimed authors, she's published more than 60 books, and has won the booker prize twice. the winner of the first booker prize of the 21st century, margaret atwood. cheering and applause. her stories often centre on oppression and brutality. most famously, her 1985 novel, the handmaid's tale, a dystopian vision of america, in which women are enslaved. now an emmy award—winning television series. there's an eye in your house. in this episode of this cultural life, the radio 4 programme, she reveals her formative influences and experiences. and how even in high school, her creativity was clear. i put on a home economics opera. it was about fabrics. can you remember how it goes? # fabrics need a swim in the suds. # it makes them feel just like new. # plink—plink, plink—plink. i want to make sure the mics are recording us. margaret atwood, welcome to this cultural life. thank you very much. happy to be here. on this programme, i ask my guests to ch

it's called margaret atwood. the character is called margaret atwood. yes, yes. yes.ery important to you? yes, and i'm allowing him to smoke in the afterlife because i'm a kind person. you're now in your 80s, margaret, and you're still as prolific as ever. what — what drives you on creatively? well, what else am i going to do all day? you know what samuel beckett said? "why do you write?" he said, "not good for anything else". chuckles. it's too late for me to be a ballet dancer. oh, alas, a vanished career. well, i'm a freelancer, you know? and that's a good thing because i don't have a boss. you are your own boss. continue to be. very enviable. margaret atwood, thank you so much for sharing your cultural life with us. thank you. voice-over: and for podcast episodes of this cultural life, | go to bbc sounds or wherever you get your podcasts. hello there. we've got a bit of rain on the way today, but also should see some spells of sunshine developing. and at the moment, the rain is edging into northern ireland, where it's turning quite heavy. we've got southerly winds

now on bbc news, this cultural life: margaret atwood. margaret atwood.prize twice. the winner of the first booker prize of the 21st century, margaret atwood. cheering and applause. her stories often centre on oppression and brutality.

this cultural life: margaret atwood. margaret atwood.ze twice. the winner of the first booker prize of the 21st century, margaret atwood.

margaret atwood.than 60 books, and has won the booker prize, twice. the winner of the first booker prize of the 21st century, margaret atwood. cheering and applause. her stories often centre on oppression and brutality. most famously, her 1985 novel, the handmaid's tale, a dystopian vision of america, in which women are enslaved, now an emmy award—winning television series. there's an eye in your house. in this episode of this cultural life, the radio a programme, she reveals her formative influences and experiences, and how, even in high school, her creativity was clear. i put on a home economics opera. it was about fabrics. can you remember how it goes? # fabrics need a swim in the suds. # it makes them feel just like new. # plink—plink, plink—plink. laughter. i want to make sure the mics are recording us. margaret atwood, welcome to this cultural life. thank you very much. happy to be here.

margaret atwood.agnum opus, the handmaid's, tale is almost prescient with its topics that explores about women's bodily autonomy, the environment, autocratic regimes, theocracy's and book banning. but we don't just discuss the handmaid's tale, atwood also wrote a modern adaptation of william shakespeare's famous and often banned play, the tempest. hers is entitled, hag seed. any discussion of shakespeare is worthwhile, especially when that discussion is with margaret atwood. new episodes of the velshi banned book club podcast are available every thursday, but before, that write to us at my story at velshi.com. we want to hear from everyone, a book club does not exist or thrive without its members. so download and subscribe to velshi banned book club wherever you get your podcast. especially for this week's conversation with margaret atwood. we will be right back. margaret atwood we will be right back. we will be right back. businesses need 5g solutions today. that's why they choose t-mobile for busine

my conversation with margaret atwood on the hyndman still much more is available right now.side region sake begins right now. >> donald trump pleads not guilty as mark meadows takes the stand. testimony from trump's chief of staff provides a window into a shaky defense in georgia. and, a warning about what a second trump term would look like. i will ask congressman adam schiff about the, and the arguments from could be removed from the bell under the 14th amendment. plus, rudy giuliani has been found leading -- the attorney for xi mohsen and ruby freeman joins me live. and later, most republicans continue to blame the plague of gun violence on everything but guns. senator chris murphy is here with reaction to what they are saying, and the biden administration is actually doing?

margaret atwood, you shouldn't write about that stuff, margaret atwood wrote it in 1985, a world it looksoks. today i spoke to somebody about a graphic novel of and frank, that a teacher got fired for in texas, for introduced into her class because there's pornography. and frank is talking about the changes to her 13 and 14 year old buddy. it's not pornography when we're talking about changes to your body. how do you address this? kids need this information. they need to say these stories. they need to themselves reflected in books. >> one thing we've seen happen and the state of missouri is what you just spoke about. we've also just seen laws being passed that restrict those types of books from being on school shelves. i think that's another extremely concerning thing that's happening. books like gender queer. books like the handmaid's tale. books like home after a deck. those are titles that students not only want to read, but need to have access to, because not only do they want to know about the world around them, sometimes they want to know or better understand how they are feeling a

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margaret atwood.en centre on oppression and brutality. most famously, her 1985 novel, the handmaid's tale, a dystopian vision of america, in which women are enslaved, now an emmy award—winning television series. there's an eye in your house. in this episode of this cultural life, the radio [i programme, she reveals her formative influences and experiences, and how, even in high school, her creativity was clear. i put on a home economics opera. it was about fabrics. can you remember how it goes? # fabrics need a swim in the suds. # it makes them feel just like new. # plink—plink, plink—plink. laughter. i want to make sure the mics are recording us. margaret atwood, welcome to this cultural life. thank you very much. i want to make sure the mics are recording us. margaret atwood, welcome to this cultural life. thank you very much. happy to be here. on this programme, i ask my guests to choose the most significant influences and experiences that have shaped their own creativity, and your first choice is

. >> margaret atwood has a a sin which i'm going to stumble but she says, right, women are scared ofing murdered by men and men are scared of being laughed at by women. you know? somewhere in there are the characters talk about book they will wait us off soon but not yet. we won'ter resist too much. i do want to see if there's any questions from the audience that either/or both of our authors can answer. i can come up with 1000 more but i'm happy to take some. >> any hands? >> please. [inaudible] >> sorry. we need you did use the microphone. >> i didn't want you h to kind f wrap up and give us a hollywood ending that you mentioned hopefulness, and i confess i haven't read the book but that you saw kind of a message of hopefulness at the end. i was wondering if you could say some more about that? >> while, not to spoil too much about it, but i think you know the characters in my novel who we followed them from 1982 to 2016, 2017, and it doesn't end hopefully for all of them but i wanted to end on the moment with her was at least still some possibility. and i think kind of people talk

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my conversation with margaret atwood on the hyndman still much more is available right now. you have pacific thursday. do not miss it. stay right where you are inside region sake begins right now. >> donald trump pleads not guilty as mark meadows takes the stand. testimony from trump's chief of staff provides a window into a shaky defense in georgia. and, a warning about what a second trump term would look like. i will ask congressman adam schiff about the, and the arguments from could be removed from the bell under the 14th amendment. plus, rudy giuliani has been found leading -- the attorney for xi mohsen and ruby freeman joins me live. and later, most republicans continue to blame the plague of gun violence on everything but guns. senator chris murphy is here with reaction to what they are saying, and the biden administration is actually doing? on its face, a hearing this week that donald trump's former chief of staff mark meadows, product around what might sound like a sideshow legal issue compared to the larger problems facing the former president. he wants to move his

my angelo, toni morrison, margaret atwood, harper lee, john steinbeck, tim o'brien, and frank, george orwell. these are the authors that change lives. these will change your life if you read them. if they don't change the way that you think about the world, you are not reading them properly and you need to go and read them again. host: jodi in tennessee. one of the books that consistently shows up about concerns over content and liber is considering if it should remain on a shelf is all boys aren't blue by george johnson. according to the ala, 86 challenges they saw, challenged for lgbtqia plus content, claiming to be sexually explicit. there is a book cover he spoke -- there is a book cover. he spoke at the los angeles times book festival earlier this year. c-span cameras were there to cover it. he spoke not only about bands on the book but the content in the book. here's a bit from george johnson earlier this year. [video clip] >> the first thing i would say is one it is really not an attempt at my story personally because they have not read the book. so you can be trying to attack

my angelo, toni morrison, margaret atwood, harper lee, john steinbeck, tim o'brien, and frank, george orwell. these are the authors that change lives. these will change your life if you read them. if they don't change the way that you think about the world, you are not reading them properly and you need to go and read them again. host: jodi in tennessee. one of the books that consistently shows up about concerns over content and liber is considering if it should remain on a shelf is all boys aren't blue by george johnson. according to the ala, 86 challenges they saw, challenged for lgbtqia plus content, claiming to be sexually explicit. there is a book cover he spoke -- there is a book cover. he spoke at the los angeles times book festival earlier this year. c-span cameras were there to cover it. he spoke not only about bands on the book but the content in the book. here's a bit from george johnson earlier this year. [video clip] >> the first thing i would say is one it is really not an attempt at my story personally because they have not read the book. so you can be trying to attack

atwood is "out front." >> welcome to the first debate of the 2024 presidential campaign. >> reporter: nikki haley channelling the late british prime minister iron lady margaret you want something said, ask a man. if you want something done, ask a woman. >> reporter: shining a clear spotlight on her gender. throughout her six months on the campaign trail, haley has keyed in on a new generation of leadership. >> we are more than ready for a new generation to lead us into the future. >> reporter: sparking interest from some republican voters, especially women. >> it's not necessary to point out that a female would bring a fresh perspective. she has one. she's nailing it. and i think that stands on its own merits. >> reporter: particularly after having watched her tackle opponents on policy matters -- >> you have no foreign policy experience and it shows. >> reporter: -- on the debate stage. >> she also fought back against, i think it was seven other male cand candidates. and she held her own very, very well. >> reporter: haley was south carolina's first female governor and also served as the u.s. ambassador to the united nations. over the years, leaning into he