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~ Tuesday, November 8 ~
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~ Sunday, November 6 ~
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Ich pflege ja einen eher großmütterlichen Lebensstil. Besonders ersichtlich wird das in meiner Zuneigung zu traditionellen britischen Radiosendungen wie Desert Island Discs. Desert Island Discs läuft seit 1942 auf BBC Radio4. Jede Folge besteht aus einem Interview mit einer Persönlichkeit des öffentlichen Lebens, die dazu passend eine kleine Musikauswahl mitgebracht hat, die ihr Leben illustriert. Zu DID eingeladen zu werden, ist eine Ehre, die durchaus nicht jedem Promi in Großbritannien zuteil wird.

Das Archiv der Sendung ist seit einiger Zeit online zugänglich, wenn auch noch lange nicht alle Aufzeichnungen digitalisiert sind. Hier lassen sich so einige schrullige, berührende, erstaunliche oder auch nicht besonders erstaunliche Gespräche ausgraben.

Neulich ist mir die Ausgabe mit der Astrophysikerin Jocelyn Bell Burnell untergekommen: eher unbedeutende Musik, umso aufschlussreicheres Gespräch.

You seem to have spent a lot of the time pretending you weren’t quite as bright as you were.

I found that it wasn’t socially acceptable for a girl to be a knowable. Particularly in science […]. And so through my teens I developed techniques of disguising my knowledge, posing statements actually as questions. […] Because the social pressure in those days - particularly in mixed groups - was that girls were the inferior sex.

It was hardly mixed, of course, by the time you got to University in Glasgow. I think you were the only female physics student, weren’t you?

In a class of about 50 people doing honours physics, yes, I was the only female.

How was that?

It was traditional at that time that whenever a woman entered a lecture theatre all the men stamped, thumped the benches, whistled, cat-called. So for my final two years of university, every class I went into I had to face that kind of barrage.

[der Radioplayer lässt sich leider nicht embedden]

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~ Tuesday, October 11 ~
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After my mother died, I found her diaries amongst her effects. And it would have things like “Tea with Fuhrer”. In other words: in the middle of “Nanny’s holiday” and “calf born to cow called Clover”: “Tea with Fuhrer”. …

Jessica Mitford, of the famed Mitford Sisters.

If you know any of her sister Nancy’s novels or have read anything about the girls and their family: this interview doesn’t disappoint.

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~ Tuesday, September 13 ~
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youmightfindyourself:

Fred Tomaselli paints intricate psychedelic patterns onto covers of the New York Times.

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fake tumblr accounts are fake

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~ Friday, September 9 ~
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Clifford and Kidd: Models

(via Put this On)

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~ Monday, September 5 ~
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I did not know that Michelle Gomez a.k.a. Sue White does stand-up. This is an excellent development.

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~ Sunday, August 28 ~
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“I’m Miss Olsen, Mr Sheldrake’s secretary, so you don’t have to play innocent with me. He used to tell his wife I was the branch manager from Seattle.”

Jetzt ist August, normalerweise wären wir schon mitten in der neuen Staffel Mad Men. Da sich aber der Drehbeginn nach langen Verhandlungen bis in den Sommer verschoben hat, startet die 5. Staffel erst 2012.

Deswegen jetzt also The Apartment (Billy Wilder, 1960) mit Shirley MacLaine und Jack Lemmon, ein Film, der Mad Men mehr als ein bißchen inspiriert hat.

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“The mirror, it’s broken.”
“Yes, I know. I like it that way. It makes me look the way I feel.”

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~ Thursday, August 25 ~
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“It is possible that the former IMF boss is the victim of a truly dreadful coincidence, becoming the victim of slander by women who don’t know each other on two continents. But it is also possible he is a sexual predator who targets women who are reluctant to report him or unlikely to make a good impression on a jury.”

Joan Smith: Why rape victims must have flawless pasts to get justice; The Independent

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