Kitty Reads Lit for Peace: Flaubert – Madame Bovary plus The Next Peacelands

Welcome back to Kitty Reads Literature for Peace, a quiet act of daily storytelling in a noisy world. In this episode, Kitty O’Compost reads the opening lines of Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert—a classic of French realism, where longing, observation, and melancholy all take root in the smallest of details.

With her trademark twang and tenderness, Kitty draws out the stillness inside Flaubert’s language—reminding us that literature doesn’t have to shout to be powerful. These short readings are her warm-up for a much bigger report: CTRL–AI–DISARM, an upcoming series on truth, power, and peace in a transforming world.

At the end of the episode, we pause for The Next Peacelands, where Avis Kalfsbeek reads a real-time list of global warzones and arms suppliers, grounding us in truth and calling us—gently but firmly—toward peace.

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• The Next Peacelands source: Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) and the Stockholm Internation Peace Research Institute’s Arms Transfers Database as updated on Wikipedia.
• Peace is Here podcast series Coming Soon!: CTRL-AI-DISARM