Emma Brockes

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Emma Brockes' Memoir, She Left Me the Gun

Monday, June 24, 2013

Emma Brockes discusses discovering her mother’s hidden past. In her memoir She Left Me the Gun: My Mother’s Life Before Me, she tells her mother, Paula’s, story of growing up with an abusive, tyrannical father in South Africa,  seeking justice on her own when the court system fails her, then escaping to England to begin a new life.  

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What a Song and Dance

Friday, May 25, 2007

Writer Emma Brockes spent her life pretending to enjoy the music of her contemporaries while secretly loving the likes of South Pacific and Oklahoma! She joins us to talk about why musicals might just hold the key to everything.

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