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Ece Temelkuran, Ben Judah, Misha Glenny and Timothy Garton Ash with Rana Mitter at Hay.

Recorded with an audience at the Hay Festival, Rana Mitter and his guests look at recent European history, fault-lines and what it means to have to leave your country.

From dockworkers in Poland to meetings with European prime ministers and presidents and witnessing the fall of the Berlin Wall - the latest book by Timothy Garton Ash is a memoir called Homelands: A Personal History of Europe. He is joined by the Turkish writer now in exile from her home country Ece Temelkuran, by journalist Ben Judah who has been interviewing citizens across different European countries and by Misha Glenny, who has written on the former Yugoslavia and Eastern Europe and presents for BBC Radio 4 a history series about different countries called The Invention of… Rana Mitter chairs the discussion, which is recorded in front of an audience as part of BBC Radio 3's programming from the Hay Festival. 

Producer: Luke Mulhall 

You can find a series of concerts from Hay, Essays, an episode of the Verb and other BBC discussions all available on BBC Sounds. 

Ece Temelkuran was born into a political family and after her work as an investigative journalist and author of a series of books exploring Turkey’s history and politics, including How to Lose a Country and Ten Choices for a Better Now. She now lives outside the country. 
Ben Judah has written This is Europe: The Way We Live Now which draws on a series of interviews with a range of European citizens detailing their experiences of life.
Misha Glenny's books include The Balkans 1804-2012 and McMafia.

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