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May 1: Diving into Glass
Caro Llewellyn … in conversation with Bill Kable
Ten years ago Caro Llewellyn was living her dream life in her adopted home of New York. A keen runner it was while running in Central Park she suddenly lost all sensation in her legs. Two days later she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. Rather than accepting this news stoically she was at once furious and humiliated. Only by looking back at her father’s extraordinary example was she able to rediscover her own grit and find a way forward rebuilding her life shard by shard.
May 8: The Godmothers – Mother’s Day
Monica McInerney … in conversation with Bill Kable
Eliza is an only daughter of a troubled young mother, but with the constant support of two watchful godmothers. Despite her tricky childhood she always felt loved and secure until her eighteenth birthday a tragic event changed her life. Thirteen years on out of the blue, an enticing invitation from one of her godmothers prompts a leap into the unknown. This is the story of a young woman trying to solve the biggest mystery of all – who is her father? A story about the families we are born into and the families we make for ourselves.
May 15: Max
Alex Miller … in conversation with Bill Kable
Alex Miller followed the faint trail of Max Blatt’s early life for five years. Max’s story unfolded, slowly at first, from the Melbourne Holocaust Centre’s records then to Berlin’s Federal Archives. From Berlin, Miller travelled to Max’s old home town of Wroclaw in Poland. And finally in Israel with Max’s niece, Liat Shoham, and her brother Yossi Blatt, at Liat’s home in the moshav Shadmot Dvora in the Lower Galilee, the circle of friendship was closed and the mystery of Max’s legendary silence was unmasked.
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