SHTUM
Dads on the Air
English - March 01, 2023 22:00 - 9.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsKids & Family fathers dads men boys male family law child support domestic Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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With special guest:
Jem Lester
…in conversation with Bill Kable
In this program we cross to London to discuss with author Jem Lester his novel SHTUM. For anyone who has missed the British television shows and is not sure what “shtum” means Jem tells us that it means “silent or uncommunicative”. That is what a loving father may face when he has a child with profound autism.
The book SHTUM won the 2013 PFD/City University Prize for Fiction but in writing the book Jem tells us he draws on his own experiences having raised a boy now nearly 16 who is profoundly autistic.