How I Found My Voice: Elif Shafak

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🗓️ 17 September 2019

⏱️ 46 minutes

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This is an episode from a new podcast strand launched by Intelligence Squared called How I Found My Voice. Presented by the prominent BBC journalist Samira Ahmed, the podcast explores how some of the world's greatest artists and thinkers became such compelling – and unique – communicators. Samira Ahmed speaks to bestselling Turkish novelist Elif Shafak. From keeping a childhood diary and learning different languages to being taken to court on charges of 'insulting Turkishness' through the words of her fictional characters, Shafak talks about the moments that shaped and inspired her voice. To hear more episodes of How I Found My Voice go to https://play.acast.com/s/howifoundmyvoice. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/intelligencesquared. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:49.0	Hi, it's Faro from the Intelligence Guid team here. I'm really excited to be speaking to you guys on a Tuesday instead of our usual Friday slot.
0:57.5	We'll be bringing you some bonus episodes for the next few weeks.
1:01.0	They're sampled from our new podcast strand called How I Found My Voice, presented by the BBC journalist Simira Ahmed.
1:07.6	If you're interested in listening to more episodes from this series, just look up how I found my voice in your podcast app.
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1:19.0	And of course, we'll be bringing you our usual episodes every Friday.
1:23.0	Yeah, I think at some point my mother was worried about my sanity because I was constantly talking to
1:34.0	imaginary beings but also like apologizing to objects when I bumped into them. Everyone who deals with words knows that because of your words you can easily get into trouble in Turkey. I was put on trial for insulting Turkishness. My Turkish lawyer had to defend my Armenian fictional characters in the courtroom. Hello and welcome to How I Found My Voice, a podcast brought to you by Intelligence Squared. I'm Samira Ahmed. This
2:24.8	podcast is all about going behind the celebrity to understand how they came to find their
2:29.7	voice from keeping a childhood diary say to learning different languages.
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