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Spiritual themes explored through music, prose and poetry.

Ethical and religious discussion that examines some of the larger questions of life, taking a spiritual theme and exploring it through music, prose and poetry

Something Understood: 30/10/2010

30/10/2010

BBC World Service - Something Understood, 30/10/2010

Writer Vesna Goldsworthy asks how emigres and exiles find a voice in a foreign country

Writer Vesna Goldsworthy asks how emigres and exiles find a voice in a foreign country.

In this week's Something Understood, Serbian writer Vesna Goldsworthy asks how emigres and exiles find their voices in a foreign country. Vesna left her home in what was then Yugoslavia in the late 80s, following love to a rainy London. She has lived in England ever since, but it took her many years to feel truly at home in the English language. As a poet, she felt her dislocation from Eastern Europe to the UK meant she had lost her internal voice.

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