Dads and Daughters
Seriously...
BBC
4.1 • 885 Ratings
🗓️ 13 October 2017
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
The relationship between fathers and daughters has been the subject of countless cultural explorations down the centuries, from Elektra's distress to Bonjour Tristesse. Some of them are idealised ('To Kill A Mockingbird', 'All the Lights We Cannot See'); some highly damaging and dysfunctional ('This is England', 'The Beggar's Opera'); some, as any A'Level pupil who's studied 'King Lear' can attest, are both. What is clear in all these cases is just how particular and powerful the relationship can be, and in this highly personal programme Lauren Laverne heads home to team up with her own dad, Les, to talk about their relationship and how it matches up with some of these cultural imaginings. Among anecdotes about growing up in Sunderland and later on Les playing roadie to Lauren's gigs with the likes of the Ramones, we also hear from artists who in one way or another are engaging with the dad/daughter relationship now, including Helen MacDonald, Glyn Maxwell and The Unthanks.
Presenter: Lauren Laverne Producer: Geoff Bird.
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| 0:00.0 | This was an impregnable fortress. The only way you get out was in a wooden box. |
| 0:05.0 | The controversial maximum security prison impossible to escape from. |
| 0:09.0 | And one of the duties of a political prisoner is the escape. |
| 0:12.0 | The IRA inmates who found a way. of a political prisoner is the escape. |
| 0:12.5 | The IRA inmates who found a way. |
| 0:14.5 | I'm Carlo Gableer and I'll be navigating a path |
| 0:19.5 | through the disturbing inside story of the biggest jailbreak in British and Irish history. |
| 0:25.0 | The narrative that they want is that this is a big achievement by them. |
| 0:28.5 | Escape from the maze, listen first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:34.0 | This is the BBC. |
| 0:39.0 | Hi, I'm Riana Dylan. |
| 0:42.0 | Welcome to Seriously. |
| 0:45.0 | He was a press photographer, a very good one. |
| 0:47.0 | He was a pretty eccentric guy. |
| 0:49.0 | Famously he only ever wore a suit and tie. |
| 0:52.0 | That's writer and naturalist Helen McDonald. The |
| 0:56.4 | well-dressed man Helen's describing is her dad. Why do we always talk about the |
| 1:01.6 | relationship between mothers and daughters and fathers and sons? Why do we always talk about the relationship between mothers and daughters and fathers and sons? |
| 1:04.8 | Why does no one talk about the relationship between fathers and daughters? |
| 1:07.7 | You know, when it's a good relationship, it's so beautiful. |
| 1:10.3 | Today's seriously interesting story is all about dads and daughters. From Shakespeare's |
| 1:18.4 | King Leah and his three girls to Harpalee's Atticus and Scout, it's a relationship steeped in cultural imaginings. |
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