A, um, a lot of poems that, that are based around the idea of these kind of [laughs] awful men from history actually having rather downtrodden, but, but s- spiky wives.
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Charlotte HigginsHOST
14:27
[laughs] And sort of in this spirit is her poem Circe, obviously Wife of Nobody.
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Charlotte HigginsHOST
14:32
But, um, she g- she gives Circe this role, I mean, it's quite gruesome because [laughs] in this Circe, uh, Circe is actually killing and eating the pigs that she has [laughs] created out of men, which does not, of course, happen.
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