Fatima Bhutto on Grief, Survival, and the Life-Affirming Love of Canine Companions
Listen to the original audio · Transcribed with NVIDIA Parakeet · Why times can differ in your player
Welcome to Intelligence Squared, where great minds meet. I'm producer Mia Serenti. Fatima Bhutto was born into the world of high politics in Pakistan. She was just 14 when she witnessed the assassination of her politician father outside of their home and was forced to flee the country. On today's episode, Fatima joins host
Michael Lee Rao to discuss how behind the public and political fallout of this story, she was battling anxiety, depression, and the entrapment of a dangerously coercive relationship with an older man. Drawing on her new memoir, The Hour of the Wolf, she also sheds light on how her relationship with her loyal Jack Russell Coco helped her begin to heal. Let's join our host, Mitha Lee Rao, now with more. Welcome to Intelligence Squared. I'm Mitha Lee Rao.
Our guest today is Fatama Puto. Fatima Bhutto is the author of the novels The Runaways and The Shadow of the Crescent Moon, which was longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction. Her nonfiction books include New Kings of the World and Songs of Blood and Sword, which deals with her father's murder and the Bhutto family's history in Pakistani politics. Her journalism and essays have appeared in The New Statesman, The New York Times, and The Guardian. Today I'm delighted to be speaking with Fatima about her new memoir, The Hour of the Wolf.
We already have this episode, so unlocking it is cheap and permanent: the full transcript (36 minutes, 5,686 words), segment and word-level timestamps, and .txt, .srt, .vtt and word-level JSON downloads, as many times as you like, forever.
No account needed, we create one from your checkout email. With credits it is 1 credit; packs start at 5 episodes for $3.49, and monthly plans are cheaper still.