Stitching souls

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary

4.3 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

The women of Gee’s Bend have held on to their creative traditions, passed down from mother to daughter: spine-tingling gospel singing, and a unique style of bold, improvised quilting. Made from old clothes out of necessity for generations, used for insulation and burned to keep off mosquitoes, the quilts brought Gee’s Bend fame after they were “discovered” by an art collector in the 1990s and shown in major museums in Houston and New York. Maria Margaronis hears the voices of this small community.

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0:00.0	A bomb that killed hundreds of thousands of people.
0:03.0	A scientist who wanted it made, but then didn't want it to be used.
0:07.0	My own grandfather and a picture of a mushroom cloud.
0:11.0	The bomb, a brand new podcast from the BBC World Service available now.
0:16.4	Nobody knocking at your door.
0:21.0	Knock. Welcome to Stitching Souls on the BBC World Service. I'm Maria Margaronis on an
0:28.8	adventure that begins with my daughter Zoe driving through Alabama.
0:32.3	Why don't you ask for somebody knocking at your door?
0:39.4	Okay, so Zsoo, where are we going?
0:41.9	We're going to G's Ben.
0:43.0	This trip was Zoe's idea.
0:45.0	Meet the quilting ladies.
0:46.0	She knows I have a thing for sewing machines.
0:48.0	She's been to G's Ben before.
0:50.0	Somebody's knocking there to door. And you'll see there's not much here.
0:56.0	There's some houses and the G's Bend Quilting Community Center.
1:03.0	Oh, why don't you have cause somebody knocking that you do?
1:08.0	Don't knock, knocking.
1:10.0	Thank you, Jesus!
1:12.0	G's Bend is an isolated village deep in Alabama's black belt
1:16.0	look how you do that
1:18.0	ignored by the outside world for decades it's now famous for its quilts.
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