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Book of the Week: The Cut Out Girl

Daniel Weyman

Bart Van Es

Isobel Creed

Lizzie Davies

Book of the Week: The Cut Out Girl: Episode 1

The Cut Out Girl

Episode 1

BBC Radio 4 - Book of the Week, The Cut Out Girl, Episode 1

Bart Van Es begins his journey to uncover the truth behind a family rift.

Bart Van Es always knew of a woman from his family's past called Lien, but why was she rarely spoken of now? He goes to meet her and find out her story.

The story of a man's search for the truth about his family's past

The last time Hesseline - known as Lien - saw her parents was in The Hague as she was collected at the door by a stranger and taken to a city far away to be hidden from the Nazis. She was raised by her foster family as one of their own but, some years after the war, she became estranged from the family who took her in. What was her side of the story? Bart van Es - a grandson of the couple who looked after Lien - was determined to find out.

Lien was now in her 80s and living in Amsterdam. Reluctantly, she agreed to meet him and eventually they struck up a remarkable friendship. The Cut Out Girl combines a powerful recreation of Lien's intensely harrowing childhood story with the wider picture of life in Holland under the Nazi occupation.

In the first episode, Bart goes to Amsterdam to meet Lien and ask if she might be willing to tell him her story.


Written by Bart Van Es
Read by Daniel Weyman
Abridged by Isobel Creed and Lizzie Davies
Produced by Lizzie Davies
A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4.

Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

By Bart Van Es. The story of a man's search for the truth about his family's past.

By Bart Van Es. The story of a man's search for the truth about his family's past. Read by Daniel Weyman.

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