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Unfiltered with Oli Dugmore

Jack Monroe: poverty, politics and life on the margins

Unfiltered with Oli Dugmore

Unfiltered with Oli Dugmore || JOE Media

Society & Culture

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2018

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

In 2012, at the end of their tether, Jack Monroe wrote a blog detailing the depths of the bitter poverty they had fallen into. After going viral, the post catapulted Jack from the brink of despair and into the spotlight.In a raw and exploratory interview, Jack takes James O’Brien through struggling to making ends meet, the realities of austerity in Britain, identifying as a non-binary and preferring the pronoun ‘they’, and their legal battle with Katie Hopkins.

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0:00.0

You're listening to Unfiltered with James O'Brien joined this week by

0:15.9

Jack Monroe who is well known for a variety of reasons for being a food blogger

0:21.3

for successfully suing Kate Hopkins, of course, for her journey out of poverty and her

0:30.0

trans status, which in recent years has become quite a big issue for the tabloid media in a way

0:36.7

that I have to confess I don't fully understand. In fact there's a lot about the whole trans issues that

0:42.2

I still don't understand even after

0:43.6

interviewing Paris Lee a few episodes ago. So I am really looking forward to this

0:48.0

but also I mean we don't prepare for interviews on unfiltered as such but I generally have a rough idea of where they're going to go.

0:56.0

With Jack I'm genuinely not sure I do. Can I ask you a weird question to start with?

1:07.0

Oh go on then.

1:08.0

Why have I heard of you?

1:10.0

Oh I don't know.

1:11.0

Usually people have heard of me because I said something mean about David Cameron once on the internet

1:15.4

Right or I sued Katie Hopkins I know that but let's go back before

1:19.2

Kid that made meals out of tins and got a cookbook deal. That generally I fall into one of three categories.

1:25.0

Everyone said really things about baby camera on the internet.

1:28.0

Yes, so only one of them gets it thrown back in their face on a near daily basis.

1:31.0

Hopkins is hopefully yesterday's news, but we'll certainly talk about your role in.

1:36.0

Been hoping that for quite some years, actually, but she's just not going away.

1:40.0

Talk about your role in that.

1:42.0

Let's begin then with the with the

1:43.4

because lots of people from working class backgrounds struggling to hold it

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