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Book at Bedtime: This Is Where I Am

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Maureen Beattie

Jude Akuwidike

Karen Campbell

Book at Bedtime: This Is Where I Am: Episode 2

This Is Where I Am

Episode 2

BBC Radio 4 - Book at Bedtime, This Is Where I Am, Episode 2

Debs takes Abdi to the Kelvingrove Art Gallery to introduce him to Glasgow's culture.

Debs takes Abdi to the Kelvingrove Art Gallery to introduce him to Glasgow's culture. As they look at the paintings, a tentative friendship is kindled.

According to her mentor's contract, once a month for a year Debs' must find a suitable place to show to Abdi, a Somalian asylum seeker newly arrived from a refugee camp in Kenya. 

As she begins to reveal the Scottish culture and its people to him, they embark upon a tentative friendship. 

First up, is the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow, which has painful memories for the newly widowed Debs.

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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