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HARDtalk

Samantha Geimer

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC News AfricaLatest broadcast: on BBC News North America

HARDtalk celebrates its twentieth anniversary with a repeat of one of its classic interviews. In the late 1970s the film director Roman Polanski admitted to having unlawful sexual intercourse with a thirteen year old girl. He spent 42 days in prison then fled the United States because he feared being given a longer sentence. Much has been said and written about what happened, but we've hardly heard anything from the girl herself. Sarah Montague travelled to New York to speak to the woman at the centre of the decades-old scandal, Samantha Geimer. How has her life been affected by that event nearly 40 years ago? Show less

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Interviewed Guest:
Samantha Geimer
Interviewer:
Sarah Montague

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