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Daughter

Duration: 44 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Actor and writer Yusra Warsama's family fled war in Somalia, and arrived in the UK when she was a baby.

In Daughter, she reflects on the final part of the refugee child's journey: growing up in a new country as a child of refugees, suspended between two cultures, and not fully part of either.

"How can we not lose ourselves in this place that doesn't let us truly sing our hearts' song?

There has to be more than feeling like an alien in the only place you know as home. The only place that has your heart."

The stories in Daughter are from Yusra witnessing and listening to the world around her, and the programme contains some strong discriminatory language.

Written and performed by Yusra Warsama,

with Tanya Moodie as Mother.

Daughter . . . . Yusra Warsama
Mother . . . . Tanya Moodie
Father . . . . Beru Tessema
Jean . . . . Alexander Devrient
Train Manager . . . . Ian Conningham
Employer . . . . Ikky Elias
Student . . . . Will Kirk
Student . . . . Greg Jones
Student . . . . Laura Christy

Theme music by Jack Newton
Series idea by Nicholas Kent with Jack Bradley

Produced and directed by Jonquil Panting Show less

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