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Radio 4,3 mins

SeriesSeries 5

Hearing my dad’s voice for the first time in 71 years

The Digital Human

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Margaret Ann Wolf Harris grew up never knowing her father's voice. On January 11th 1944, when she was just 17 months old, Sgt. Cody L. Wolf's plane was shot down over Germany. Though she had pictures and mementos of her father, a silence hung over his memory. But in 2013, the Baltimore Sun rebroadcast a Christmas recording of American troops stationed in England, and at the age of 71, Margaret Ann heard her father say her name for the first time.

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