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Taking a Stand

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Factual: Life Stories

Interview series with Fergal Keane in which he talks to individuals who have taken a stand

Fergal Keane talks to individuals who through conviction or circumstance have been forced to take a stand for what they believe in

Taking a Stand: 21/12/2010

21/12/2010

BBC Radio 4 - Taking a Stand, 21/12/2010

Fergal Keane talks to Suzanne Hook about her decision to found an orphanage in Vietnam.

Fergal Keane talks to Suzanne Hook about her decision to found an orphanage in Vietnam, the country of her birth.

Fergal Keane talks to Suzanne Hook. Born in Saigon at the height of the Vietnam War, she was found under a bush and taken to an orphanage. Suzanne believes her father to be a black American GI, her mother Vietnamese. Brought to Britain and adopted when she was three, she went on to marry and became a successful businesswoman. But a holiday to Vietnam in 2006 changed everything. Suzanne Hook decided to sell all her possessions in the United Kingdom and found an orphanage in the country of her birth.

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