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Leading writers on arts, history, philosophy, science, religion and beyond, themed across a week - insight, opinion and intellectual surprise.

The Essay: The Love that Wrote Its Name: There Was No Them There (An Autobiography of Stella F Duffy)

There Was No Them There (An Autobiography of Stella F Duffy)

The Love that Wrote Its Name

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Writer Stella Duffy on growing up as a lesbian in New Zealand in the 1960s and 70s.

Stella Duffy on growing up as a lesbian in New Zealand in the 1960s and 70s, and considers what the 40-year expatriate 'marriage' of Gertrude Stein and Alice B Toklas means to her.

A heartfelt meditation on the (in)visibilty of gay women. 

Writer and theatremaker Stella Duffy describes growing up lesbian in New Zealand in the 60s and 70s and considers what the 40 year expatriate 'marriage' of novelist, poet and playwright Gertrude Stein and Alice B Toklas, author of The Alice B Toklas Cookbook, means to her. 

Part of Gay Britannia, a season of programming marking the 50th anniversary of The Sexual Offences Act 1967, which partially decriminalised homosexual acts that took place in private between two men over the age of 21.

Writer: Stella Duffy
Reader: Stella Duffy
Producer: Simon Richardson.

The Essay: The Love that Wrote Its Name

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