Songs My Mother Taught Me
This 52-minute “documentary novel” about British women who married foreign soldiers during World War II is based upon real wartime diaries, letters, photos and recordings. More than a reconstruction of history, it is also a personal journey of discovery, as events of the 1990's resonate with those of the 1940's
Produced by Chris Brookes.
AWARDS:
Special Commendation for Radio Documentary, Prix Europa 1998
Best Special Program, CBC National Radio Awards1998
Gold Medal, International Radio Festival of New York 1998
"All history is contemporary history: not in the ordinary sense of the word, where contemporary history means the history of the comparatively recent past, but in the strict sense: the consciousness of one's own activity as one actually performs it. History is thus the self-knowledge of the living mind. For even when the events which the historian studies are events that happened in the distant past, the condition of their being historically known is that they should vibrate in the historian's mind."
-- John Berger, "G."
