SIM Ep 705 Chops 239: My Pen Is The Wing of A Bird

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Society & Culture

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🗓️ 27 February 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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My Pen is The Wing of a Bird is an excellent new book - on sale now - featuring short stories by 18 new female writers in Afghanistan. It exists thanks to the hard work of the people behind the writers' development programme Untold, and exists despite the not insubstantial obstacles of a global pandemic and the disaster that befell Afghanistan last summer. In this week's Chops, Hannah talks to the founder of Untold, Lucy Hannah, and Shekiba Habib, one of the translators who worked on the stories, and now lives in the UK. The chat about life for women in Afghanistan today, the work necessary to pull this book together and the variety of stories it tells. My Pen is the Wing of a Bird is published by MacLehose Press. Untold Narratives CIC works with writers marginalised in society by community or conflict. You can support Untold’s work here: http://untold-stories.org/donate/ Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/standardissuespodcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Some things just add some play to your day, catching the toast as it pops out of the toaster, dancing down the street to your favourite place.
0:09.0	Wearing a sparkly boots to the shop.
0:11.0	Best of all, picking the new Red Scratch Card.
0:14.0	A Red Scratch Card, please. Thank you.
0:17.0	And doing your own drum roll. This is exciting.
0:21.0	Add some play to your day, with Scratch Cards from the National Lottery.
0:25.0	As it's dream big, play small. Brods and procedures are by a place must be 18 or over.
0:46.0	Hello, Hannah here. Welcome to this week's Sunday Chops, in which I'm going to be talking about an excellent new book.
0:55.0	My pen is The Wing of a Bird, which is on sale now, featuring short stories by 18 new female writers in Afghanistan.
1:04.0	Exists thanks to the hard work of the people behind the Writer's Development Programme Untold.
1:09.0	And exists despite the not-in-substantial obstacles of a global pandemic and the disaster that befell Afghanistan last summer.
1:20.0	I talked to the founder of Untold Lucy Hannah and to Shakiba Habib, one of the translators who worked on the stories and now lives in the UK.
1:30.0	We talk about life for women in Afghanistan today, about the work necessary to pull this book together, and about the variety of stories it tells.
1:40.0	Now, I'm recording this on Friday, and I won't lie, editing words about the fall of Kabul while washing the horror unfold in Ukraine, was almost too sad to bear.
1:51.0	We've already seen heroic sacrifice on the part of Ukraine's military, which is, of course, predominantly men, and I'm sure there will be much more to come.
2:02.0	But I hope this chops will remind you that in war, women, children, the elderly, and the disabled always pay a terrible price to.
2:12.0	The people of Ukraine are in our thoughts, and if you have friends and family there, you are too.
2:19.0	Hi, Hannah here. I am joined by Lucy Hannah, founder of the Writers Development Program Untold. Hello, Lucy.
2:32.0	Hi, Hannah.
2:33.0	I'm also joined by Shakiba Habib, one of the translators of said story. Thank you for joining us.
2:38.0	Thank you.
2:40.0	Hi, where I'm going to start is with you, Lucy.
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