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The Odyssey Project: My Name Is Nobody

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Writers from various diasporas create new radio poems in response to Homer's The Odyssey.

Writers from various diasporas create new radio poems in response to Europe's second oldest poem, Homer's The Odyssey.

The Odyssey Project: My Name Is Nobody: Series 1

Sarah Howe

Julian May

The Odyssey Project: My Name Is Nobody: Series 1: Telemachus

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26/04/2017

Telemachus

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Sarah Howe looks at the story of Odysseus's son, Telemachus, from a Chinese perspective.

Odysseus heroically leaves to fight at Troy. In so doing he deserts his wife and, shamefully, his son, Telemachus. Sarah Howe explores the parallels with family life in China today.

In China today many children are left in rural villages with grandparents while their parents work vast distances away in the coastal cities. Odysseus, similarly, abandons his son Telemachus and goes to war. Sarah Howe, winner of the T. S.Eliot Award, was born in Hong Kong. In her response to Homer Telemachus is a Chinese girl left in the countryside. She wants to leave, but for reasons more complicated than to look for her father. 

Producer: Julian May.

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