A Sense of Ourselves
Thursday 14 February 2008 23:00-23:15 (Radio 3)
Four writers and immigrants to Britain give an outsider's perspective on Britishness.
Playlist:
4/4. Kapka Kassabova is a young poet and novelist who briefly flirted with Britain in the early 1990s when her father brought the family over from Bulgaria.
Thirteen years later, she returned to Britain from New Zealand and has made her home in Edinburgh. She contrasts her impressions formed as a teenager landing in a country where for her peers Bulgaria meant a character from the Wombles with those she has formed as a mature adult.
