Falling in love in a time of colonization

Code Switch

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4.6 • 14.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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This week Code Switch digs into The Ministry of Time, a new book that author Kailene Bradley describes as a "romance about imperialism." It focuses on real-life Victorian explorer Graham Gore, who died on a doomed Arctic expedition in 1847. But in this novel, time travel is possible and Gore is brought to the 21st century where he's confronted with the fact that everyone he's ever known is dead, that the British Empire has collapsed, and that perhaps he was a colonizer.

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0:00.0	This is a
0:02.0	longtime fresh air producer and sometime interviewer.
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0:07.0	I talk with Maggie Rogers about nostalgia,
0:09.0	her new album, and her decision to go to Harvard Divinity School.
0:12.8	I think at its core, music has always been the most sacred and most spiritual thing that I've
0:18.6	ever been a part of.
0:20.7	Find NPR's fresh air wherever you get podcasts.
0:24.0	Hey everyone, you're listening to Code Switch.
0:27.0	I'm B.A. Parker.
0:28.0	And I'm Gene Dembie.
0:30.0	All right.
0:31.0	Gene, I have a very important question for you.
0:33.6	Ready?
0:34.6	I hope I have a good answer for you.
0:35.6	I already hit me.
0:36.6	Okay, if you had to live in any era outside of this one, when would you live?
0:42.2	Oh man, come on. I mean I feel like I couldn't go back in time because I feel like no black man, the United States. Me and you are one.
0:52.0	Yes.
0:53.0	Things are not looking better in the past even though things aren't looking too sweet here.
0:57.0	No.
0:58.0	Dina like random diseases, like, you know what I mean?
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