# Black Maria

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Podcast: [Eight Days of Diana Wynne Jones](https://stenobird.com/podcast/eight-days-of-diana-wynne-jones-7072912)
Published: 2025-12-20T14:00:25+00:00
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Duration seconds: 5880

## Resource

What's the good of being civilized? That's what I want to know. It just means other people can break the rules and you can't. The gender dictatorship, the horror of conformity, the limits of word power, and how to stop your mother-in-law from living rent free in your brain. Transcript available here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gnTKOU9XOofGvXZR4CdpBVJI-qYp5UqO/view?usp=sharing And we'll be back in two weeks with A Sudden Wild Magic!

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