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BBC Radio 4

Something Understood: Victimhood and Survival

28th October 2007
Presented by Katy Radford
Produced by Alan Hall

Katy Radford Katy Radford considers how some people find the resources to survive trauma and escape victim-hood.  She talks to her own mother, Inge, about living with the knowledge that she, unlike many of her immediate family, escaped the Nazis, and to Irish poet Paul Muldoon about the experiences of his country. 

With readings from the works of Benjamin Zephaniah, Bruce Chatwin and Cathy Staunton and music including Over the Rainbow sung by Isarael Kamakawiwo Ole.

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