# Liberating Women's Voices: Austen, Wollstonecraft and after, with Bee Rowlatt Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-book-club-review-508568/liberating-women-s-voices-austen-wollstonecraft-and-after-with-bee-rowlatt Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-book-club-review-508568/liberating-women-s-voices-austen-wollstonecraft-and-after-with-bee-rowlatt.md Podcast: [The Book Club Review](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-book-club-review-508568) Published: 2026-04-22T11:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://rss.art19.com/episodes/42f3da4a-f5bd-4878-829f-694543970bc0.mp3?rss_browser=BAhJIg90cmFuc2NyaWJyBjoGRVQ%3D--952c5701c84ad333c69d5faa668f8177091704f0 Audio file: https://rss.art19.com/episodes/42f3da4a-f5bd-4878-829f-694543970bc0.mp3?rss_browser=BAhJIg90cmFuc2NyaWJyBjoGRVQ%3D--952c5701c84ad333c69d5faa668f8177091704f0 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-book-club-review-508568/episodes/liberating-women-s-voices-austen-wollstonecraft-and-after-with-bee-rowlatt Duration seconds: 3023 ## Resource A new local literary festival provided the perfect opportunity to record the very first Book Club Review live. Kate is joined by author and broadcaster Bee Rowlatt, whose books include the best-selling  Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad, which went on to be dramatised by the BBC, and  In Search of Mary  inspired by Mary Wollstonecraft. Bee also runs the Wollstonecraft Society, a human rights charity. Her debut novel,  One Woman Crime Wave , is a novel that explores the realities of wealth, influence, and inequality in present-day London and offers plenty of talking points for book club discussion and debate. Join our festival audience to hear more about Bee's life and work and why Mary Wollstonecraft and her writing has never been more relevant. Books mentioned Find all the titles below in The Book Club Review's bookshop on Bookshop.org Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad: The True Story of an Unlikely Friendship by Bee Rowlatt The Correspondent by Virginia Evans In Search of Mary by Bee Rowlatt Letters Written in Sweden, Norway and Denmark by Mary Wollstonecraft One Woman Crime Wave by Bee Rowlatt An Inspector Calls by J. B. Priestly Uprising by Tahmima Anam Feminism for a World on Fire by Natasha Walter Notes Find out more about The Mary Wollstonecraft memorial sculpture (The Guardian) Follow the Barnsbury Book Festival for news and updates Patreon Discover what's on offer over on The Book Club Review Patreon. In becoming a member you'll get extra shows and become part of a warm community swapping book recommendations and connecting over our shared love of books and reading. At the book club tier you can join our monthly book club and come and talk books with Kate in person every month. And as a paying member you're supporting Kate i… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-book-club-review-508568/episodes/liberating-women-s-voices-austen-wollstonecraft-and-after-with-bee-rowlatt/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-book-club-review-508568/liberating-women-s-voices-austen-wollstonecraft-and-after-with-bee-rowlatt.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.