Listeners will come to this podcast with their own questions to be answered – but without any firm thread of its own, it will do little more than confirm the views already firmly intact ✒️ _emilybootle
Each of these topics would make interesting podcasts in their own right; this one is too broad and too meandering to do any of them justice.
There is, of course, a gentle theme running through this – that Rowling is accustomed to the threat of being burned at the stake – but the 45 minutes of information about evangelist pastors and school libraries in the US feel unmoored. Since only the first two episodes have been released, we cannot know how Phelps-Roper will treat Rowling’s views on gender, when she arrives there. But the issue is, clearly, fundamentally very different from that of the book-burning in the late 90s. Wherecaused fear and alarm 25 years ago for its ungodly invocations of unicorn blood and lightning-shaped scars, now any disillusionment is largely because Rowling herself is prone to tweeting incessantly about transgender issues.
What the podcast does expose in its first two episodes is the extent to which Rowling – along with so many others embroiled in this culture war – appears to have been heavily politicised by social media. She makes sensible, intelligent comments about the perils of black-and-white thinking; that “a sense of righteousness is not incompatible with doing terrible things”.
Listeners will come to this podcast with their own questions to be answered – but without any firm thread of its own, it will do little more than confirm the views already firmly intact.
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