Lives in a Landscape – Gone East
December 5th, 2008 by Steve BowbrickAlan Dein is the man behind Don't Hang Up, a Speechification favourite. A couple of years ago, for a particularly dark episode of the show, he called a payphone on the seafront in Margate (listen to the original programme here). He found himself speaking to an amazing 14 year-old girl called Hannah whose life sounded like it was already spiraling into chaos and sadness.
In this spellbinding episode of his social observation series Lives in a Landscape, he's made contact with Hannah and the resulting interview is haunting and also full of a kind of anxious hope for Hannah, who is now 16. I don't like to gush but the trailer for this show, in which I learnt that Dein had found Hannah and her grandmother who looks after her—was enough to give me goosebumps. This is what I pay my licence fee for. Here's the MP3.
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