Episode 4
A mission across the Andes goes perilously wrong, and Carmen is forced to risk all. Coming-of-age memoir of a teenage revolutionary read by Mia Soteriou.
Born a week after the death of Che Guevara, Carmen Aguirre was always destined to become a revolutionary. After Pinochet's coup in Chile in 1973, her family is forced to flee to Canada, but a few years later return to join the underground movement against Pinochet. And so Carmen's double life begins. Posing as a westernised teenager by day, at night she is drilled in surveillance techniques, cryptography and subterfuge. It is a time of high excitement, but also one of fear and paranoia, of not knowing who to trust, or who to fear.
Today: a mission across the Andes goes perilously wrong, and Carmen is forced to risk all.
Author: Carmen Aguirre.
Reader: Mia Soteriou.
Abridger: Richard Hamilton
Producer: Justine Willett.
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Thu 20 Oct 201109:45BBC Radio 4 FM- Fri 21 Oct 201100:30BBC Radio 4
- Thu 25 Aug 201614:45BBC Radio 4 Extra
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