Want to create an interactive transcript for this episode?
Podcast: Ctrl Alt Delete
Episode: #129 Louise O'Neill: A Feminist Reimagining Of The Little Mermaid
Description: This episode is with Louise O'Neill, the award-winning Irish novelist. Louise has written a feminist retelling of The Little Mermaid which has just been published by Scholastic. A spokesperson for the publisher said ofThe Surface Breaks: “Christian Andersen’s dark, original fairy tale is reimagined through a searing feminist lens, with the stunning, scalpel-sharp writing that has won Louise her legions of devoted fans.” In the Disney version of The Little Mermaid, Ariel changes her body to please a man, is at the beck and call of her father and she even has her voice taken away from her. I got to interview Louise O'Ne...