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Book at Bedtime: This Is Where I Am

Jane Marshall

Maureen Beattie

Jude Akuwidike

Karen Campbell

Book at Bedtime: This Is Where I Am: Episode 1

This Is Where I Am

Episode 1

BBC Radio 4 - Book at Bedtime, This Is Where I Am, Episode 1

Debs volunteers for the mentoring scheme and is paired with Abdi, a Somali asylum seeker.

Debs volunteers for the mentoring scheme at the Scottish Refugee Council and is paired with Abdi, a Somali asylum seeker with a four-year-old daughter.

When the Scottish Refugee Council assigns Debs to act as mentor to a Somali refugee called Abdi, the two are drawn into an awkward friendship. They must meet once a month in a different part of Glasgow so that the newly widowed Debs can open Abdi's eyes to her beloved city and its people. 

As they gradually get to know each other their stories are revealed. And while Debs helps Abdi come to terms with his new life in Scotland, he teaches her about the importance of family - and of laying ghosts to rest.

All Abdi has brought with him is his four-year-old daughter, Rebecca, who lives in a silence no one can reach. Until, one day, little Rebecca starts talking. And they realise why she stopped.

Read by Maureen Beattie and Jude Akuwidike.


Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall
A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4.

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Novel about a Glasgow refugee counsellor and the Somali asylum seeker she befriends

Karen Campbell's novel about a Glasgow refugee counsellor and the Somali asylum seeker she befriends. Abridged by Jane Marshall, read by Maureen Beattie and Jude Akuwidike

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