{"id":427,"date":"2011-09-05T17:12:32","date_gmt":"2011-09-05T17:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/WritingTutors\/?p=427"},"modified":"2011-09-05T17:13:15","modified_gmt":"2011-09-05T17:13:15","slug":"ida-and-louise-a-radio-commission-for-jane-purcell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/WritingTutors\/?p=427","title":{"rendered":"Ida and Louise &#8211; a radio commission for Jane Purcell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve just been commissioned to write a five part <em>Woman\u2019s Hour<\/em> Drama based on the lives of Ida and Louise Cook.\u00a0\u00a0 Both were avid opera lovers and during their travels to Europe in the 1930s became aware of the persecution of the Jews.\u00a0 This was contrary to the bland reports received in the British newspapers.\u00a0 When Ida started writing successful romances for Mills and Boon and Louise learned German, they used the money to sponsor and rescue dozens of Jewish families, right under the noses of the Nazis.\u00a0 I\u2019ve tried to think of other titles but <em>Ida and Louise<\/em> seems to have stuck \u2013 despite or maybe because of <em>Thelma and Louise<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a picture of the two of them in their opera finery:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/WritingTutors\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Id_and_Louise_Cook.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-428\" title=\"Id_and_Louise_Cook\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/WritingTutors\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Id_and_Louise_Cook-239x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"239\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/WritingTutors\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Id_and_Louise_Cook-239x300.jpg 239w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/WritingTutors\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Id_and_Louise_Cook.jpg 319w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 239px) 100vw, 239px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve just been commissioned to write a five part Woman\u2019s Hour Drama based on the lives of Ida and Louise Cook.\u00a0\u00a0 Both were avid opera lovers and during their travels to Europe in the 1930s became aware of the persecution &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/WritingTutors\/?p=427\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,63],"tags":[46,82,10],"class_list":["post-427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plays","category-radio","tag-bbc-radio-4","tag-commission","tag-drama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/WritingTutors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/WritingTutors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/WritingTutors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/WritingTutors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/WritingTutors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=427"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/WritingTutors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":431,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/WritingTutors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions\/431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/WritingTutors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/WritingTutors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/WritingTutors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}