OFF AIR... EXTRA
Off Air with Jane & Fi
The Times
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 June 2025
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Welcome back to another Friday special. This week's bonus episode features an interview with the author Kate Mosse, from our Times Radio afternoon show (2–4 p.m., Monday to Thursday).
Kate Mosse has shared an email exchange she had with a brave female writer living under Afghanistan's brutal regime. You can read the exchange at thetimes.com. It was set up by Untold Narratives — you can find out more at untold-narratives.org.
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| 1:01.5 | when we've covered it before, that you care very deeply about what is happening to women and girls |
| 1:06.5 | in Afghanistan. So we're going to bring you a conversation that I have with Kate Moss, |
| 1:11.0 | who is many things, super, super, super sawaway bestselling author, founder and chair of the |
| 1:17.0 | Women's Prize for Fiction and the Women's Prize for Nonfiction. And she's such a good egg. |
| 1:21.8 | She does so many writing projects with women in particular across the world. And she would like |
| 1:27.2 | to draw your attention to a series of letters that go between her and a writer |
| 1:32.4 | in Afghanistan that really reveals something about the plight of women and girls there at the |
| 1:37.7 | moment. |
| 1:38.6 | When the Taliban march back into power in Afghanistan in 2021, many things were lost, notably freedom for women and girls. |
| 1:48.2 | Taliban rule means that girls are no longer allowed to go to secondary school. Women are banned |
| 1:52.5 | from public life. They can't sing. Talk in the street. Get a passport. Even appear at windows. |
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