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The Art of Fiction, Democracy & Truth with AL KENNEDY

·1 hr 36 min·5 clips
A.L. Kennedy describes how a soldier's wartime screams led to a method that uncovers people's essential identities.
A.L. Kennedy discusses her novel 'Alive in the Merciful Country', exploring themes of education, democracy, and truth through the lens of a primary school teacher. She delves into the spy cop scandal, AI misinformation, and the role of creativity in resistance, while sharing insights from her activism and writing process.

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A conversation that keeps linking voice, grief, and public life without pretending those things can be separated.

It treats voice as more than style and follows that idea into grief, the pandemic, activism, and the cost of speaking in public. The best moments tie close attention to larger feeling: listening well, the ache of COVID-era loss, the memory of protest, and the unease around…

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For a slow, searching conversation about voice, grief, and why being fully expressed matters.

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