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Helen Charman (left) is wearing a blue jumper, Marianne Brooker (right) is wearing a white shirt and brown glasses
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Helen Charman & Marianne Brooker: Maternal Lines

Sat 26 Oct 2024, 3.30pm

Hear from two writers who are intimately concerned with the many ways our lives are political, and the radical possibility inherent in community.

In Mother State, Helen Charman writes a new political history of motherhood in Britain and Northern Ireland, from Women’s Liberation to austerity, Margaret Thatcher to Kat Slater, following mothers’ fight for an alternative future.

In Intervals, Marianne Brooker chronicles her own mother’s fight for a peaceful death on her own terms, in her own home. Connecting the most intimate spaces with the most political, the book explores choice, care and creativity under austerity.

Helen Charman is Fellow and College Teaching Officer in English at Clare College, University of Cambridge. Her critical writing has been published in the Guardian, The White Review, Another Gaze and The Stinging Fly among others, and she has published four poetry pamphlets, most recently in the Pleasure Dairy. Charman volunteers as a birth companion in Glasgow.

Marianne Brooker is based in Bristol, where she works for a charity campaigning on climate and social justice. She has a PhD from Birkbeck and a background in arts research and teaching. Intervals won the 2022 Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize and was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Nonfiction.

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Age guidance
For ages 16+

Times & tickets

Dates, times and prices

Dates & times

26 Oct 2024, 3.30pm

Run time

1 hour (approx)

All timings are approximate and subject to change

Standard entry

from £12.00*

* Excludes £3.50 booking fee.

Book as early as you can to ensure the best choice of tickets. Ticket prices may be adjusted without notice to reflect demand.

Concessions

25%

Limited availability

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For your visit

This event is held at the Royal Festival Hall Southbank Centre

The Royal Festival Hall is open daily.

Monday & Tuesday, 10am – 6pm*
Wednesday – Sunday, 10am – 11pm

*If we’re hosting a performance, the building will stay open until the event ends.