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Independence
Episode 3 of 5
Gemma Arterton reads Vesna Maric's account of coming to Britain as a 16-year-old asylum seeker, after fleeing the conflict in Bosnia in 1992.
Vesna's sister returns to Bosnia and she is left alone in Penrith to cope with dodgy digs and an even dodgier flatmate.
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Thu 22 Jan 200900:30
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