Episode 3
Barbara Demick's eyewitness account of the siege of Sarajevo. In this episode, coming of age in a warzone.
To mark the twentieth anniversary of the start of the siege of Sarajevo the award winning journalist Barbara Demick revists her evocative eyewitness account of how the residents of one street in the city endured three and half years of living in a warzone. Today's theme is about coming of an age in a warzone.
Read by Laurel Lefkow
Abridged by Julian Wilkinson
Produced by Elizabeth Allard.
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- Wed 18 Apr 201209:45BBC Radio 4 FM
- Thu 19 Apr 201200:30BBC Radio 4
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