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Book of the Week: Carmen Aguirre - Something Fierce

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Carmen Aguirre - Something Fierce

BBC Radio 4 - Book of the Week, Carmen Aguirre - Something Fierce, Episode 3

Carmen finds herself in rural Argentina in the depths of a harsh winter.

When the situation in Bolivia becomes to dangerous, Carmen finds herself in rural Argentina in the depths of a harsh winter. Memoir of a teenage revolutionary read by Mia Soteriou.

Mia Soteriou reads Carmen Aguirre's coming-of-age memoir of life as a teenage revolutionary in Latin America.

Born a week after the death of Che Guevara, Carmen Aguirre was always destined to become a revolutionary. After Pinochet's coup in Chile in 1973, her family is forced to flee to Canada, but a few years later return to join the underground movement against Pinochet. And so Carmen's double life begins. Posing as a westernised teenager by day, at night she is drilled in surveillance techniques, cryptography and subterfuge. It's a time of high excitement, but also one of fear and paranoia, of not knowing who to trust, or who to fear. 

Today: when the situation in Bolivia becomes to dangerous, Carmen finds herself in rural Argentina in the depths of a harsh winter.

Author: Carmen Aguirre. 
Reader: Mia Soteriou.
Abridger: Richard Hamilton
Producer: Justine Willett.

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Carmen Aguirre's memoir of her time as a teenage revolutionary in 1980s Chile

Carmen Aguirre's darkly comic coming-of-age memoir of her time as a teenage revolutionary during Pinochet's repressive regime in Chile during the 1980s

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