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Intelligence Squared

How I Found My Voice: Fatima Bhutto

Intelligence Squared

Intelligence Squared

Arts, Society & Culture, News, News Commentary

4.21.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Samira Ahmed speaks to the author Fatima Bhutto about the power of writing fiction, growing up in one of Pakistan’s most famous political dynasties and why she blames her aunt, former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, for the death of her father. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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You're listening to Intelligent Squared, today we're hearing from writer and author

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Fatima Buto, an interview which was first released on our podcast series How I Found My Voice.

1:09.5

Here's Fatima herself talking to Samir Ahmed.

1:12.7

Where my father stepped out of the car to ask what was happening, a signal was given

1:24.1

to shoot to commence firing, and my father and six other men were killed that night.

1:39.8

Power is an incredibly corrosive force, my father was a threat to her, my father was

1:47.9

a critic, my aunt herself was killed years later, and so there's no chance

1:53.9

to ask her.

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Hello and welcome to How I Found My Voice, a podcast from Intelligent Squared.

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I'm Samir Ahmed and I'm going behind the celebrity persona to find out what influences

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shaped their success.

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