Summary
Writer, feminist and author of such books as Sexual Personae and Provocations, Camille Paglia joins Philip Dodd to talk about feminism and free speech in the 21st century, and how her Italian heritage has contributed to her character.
Producer: Craig Templeton Smith
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the home of the oxymoron. Evil genius. He asked the newspaper to print his obituary early so he'd enjoy it. That's like hiding at your own funeral. Yeah, a big, great gig. I'm Russell Kane. Join me to weigh in on whether the biggest players in history are more evil or genius. Becoming that rich, I'd say that is some level of genius. It also helps that it's a long time ago, right? |
| 0:23.3 | It's like the podcast version of telling your kids the ice cream van plays music when it's out of ice cream. |
| 0:28.8 | Listen to evil genius on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:32.4 | This is the BBC. |
| 0:35.7 | Hello, I'm Philip Dodd, and this is the Arts and Ideas podcast from BBC Radio 3. |
| 0:41.7 | The kind of guests we have on writers, artists, philosophers, historians and filmmakers, |
| 0:47.8 | and we challenge and cajole them, we even laugh with them, and we talk about contemporary |
| 0:52.5 | life, promiscuously, how we got here and where |
| 0:55.9 | we're going. In a moment or two, we'll be meeting some of them. But before we do, please take a moment |
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| 1:42.3 | She loves the provocations of Oscar Wilde and the wise-cracking talk of Catherine Hepburn, |
| 1:48.5 | even if her own beginnings are rather far from those of Wilde and Hepburn, two cultural aristocrats. |
| 1:55.0 | She was born in Snowbound Upper State, New York, to an Italian immigrant family in 1947. |
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