SIM Ep 763 Chops 262: Only sometimes, with Kit de Waal

Standard Issue Podcast

Standard Issue

Society & Culture

4.7 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Standard Issue favourite Kit de Waal always knew she’d had a strange childhood. One of five siblings brought up in relative poverty in Birmingham by her Irish Catholic mother and West Indian father, she was raised as a Jehovah’s Witness. In her new memoir, Without Warning and Only Sometimes: Scenes from an Unpredictable Childhood, she ditches her usual novel format to write with warmth and candour about her own life experiences.

In this week’s Chops, she chats to Jen about the book and her family, as well as the ongoing travesty of food poverty, the advantages of growing up in a dual-heritage household, and the freedom of writing non-fiction.

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0:00.0	Some things just add some play to your day.
0:02.9	Catching the toast as it pops out of the toaster.
0:05.6	Dancing down the street to your favourite place.
0:09.0	Wearing a sparkly boots to the shop.
0:11.2	Best of all, picking the new Red Scratch Card.
0:14.0	A Red Scratch Card, please.
0:15.8	Thank you.
0:16.7	And doing your own drum roll.
0:18.6	This is exciting.
0:21.4	Add some play to your day.
0:22.9	The Scratch Cards from the National Lottery.
0:24.9	Set to tree big, place more.
0:26.5	Brewers and procedures are by a place where it's got 18 or over.
0:56.6	Reliability, prices may vary in a little weight troze,
0:58.5	tunnel islands, and concessions.
1:16.3	Hello and welcome to this episode of The Sunday Chops in which I,
1:20.6	that's Jen, I'm chatting to the brilliant writer, Kit DeVal,
1:24.7	about her new book without warning and only sometimes scenes from an unpredictable childhood.
1:30.0	The book is a memoir of Kit's childhood in Birmingham raised by her Irish Catholic mother
1:35.0	and West Indian father brought up as a Jehovah's Witness.
1:38.7	It's an incredible read covering issues such as food poverty, racism, and drug use,
1:43.4	but above all about the love that her and her siblings have for one another.
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