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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Simone de Beauvoir. "One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman," she wrote in her best known and most influential work, The Second Sex, her exploration of what it means to be a woman in a world defined by men. Published in 1949, it was an immediate success with the thousands of women who bought it. Many male critics felt men came out of it rather badly. Beauvoir was born in 1908 to a high bourgeois family and it was perhaps her good fortune that her father lost his money when she was a girl. With no dowry, she pursued her education in Paris to get work and in a key exam to allow her to teach philosophy, came second only to Jean Paul Sartre. He was retaking. They became lovers and, for the rest of their lives together, intellectual sparring partners. Sartre concentrated on existentialist philosophy; Beauvoir explored that, and existentialist ethics, plus the novel and, increasingly in the decades up to her death in 1986, the situation of women in the world.
WithChristina HowellsProfessor of French and Fellow of Wadham College at the University of Oxford
Margaret AtackProfessor of French at the University of Leeds
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Ursula TiddProfessor of Modern French Literature and Thought at the University of Manchester
Producer: Simon Tillotson.
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This week we hear a fantastic story from Miss Danni of the Beatle Bandaids.
The way that it came to be is this: Danni posted a photo on her Instagram of her and Robert Plant. We messaged her and asked, so what's the story?
Danni decided that it was the right time, and Muses was the right place for her to share the tale of not only meeting the golden god himself, but of actually spending time with him after a show one night. The way Danni weaves the story put us right there in the moment, we travelled back with her to New York, and we loved hearing it. We hope that you do too.
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This week we take you to Kingston, Jamaica where Bob and Rita met and fell in love.
Rita was still just a teen when she met The Wailing Wailers and began doing backing vocals for them. At the studio she began to get close to one member in particular, Robert, better known as Bob Marley. Their affection for each other grew fast and strong and before long the young couple were married.
From the get go Rita looked at her marriage as a partnership. Rita was there with Bob through years of struggle, yet their love for one another and their dreams of making it big never faltered. When Bob did finally reach success Rita was alongside with him, touring for 7 years with her backing band, the I-Three.
While over the years their relationship would shift from that of lovers to great friends, Rita would be there for Bob until the very end and continues to maintain his legacy.
Make sure to check out Rita's autobiography No Woman, No Cry: My Life with Bob Marley.
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This week I am joined by photographer Martin Bryan who shares the story behind Annie Leibowitz's life and career.
Welcome to another episode of Muses! This is a very special week as I am joined by my friend Martin Bryan who takes the reigns and shares with me the story of Annie Leibowitz's life and career. From her early days at Rolling Stone, to her more recent high end fashion photography, we discuss Annie's progression as an artist as well as the art of photography itself.
Martin is a Toronto-based photographer who specializes in portraiture, landscapes and entertainment. Listeners will already be familiar with his work as he took the incredible Muses promo shots of Chanty and I at the beginning of his own photography career.
You can find more of Martin's fantastic photographs and make sure to also follow in on Instagram @Misterpixie, and visit his website at https://www.martinbryan.com/
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