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Program 10-11-07-A |
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Ingrid Betancourt was kidnaped by Marxist rebels in Columbia while in the midst of her presidential campaign. She spent the next six and a half years in captivity chained, humiliated and abused. But her greatest fear was not death. It was losing her humanity. In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge, Ingrid Betancourt on faith, hope, and love.
SEGMENT 1:
Jessica Stern is one of the world's foremost experts on terrorism. In her book "Denial: A Memoir of Terror," Stern recounts her own brutal rape at age fifteen. Stern tells Anne Strainchamps that coming to understand her own terror and its after-effects has been very valuable in helping her choose and continue to do her life's work.
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Rahna Riko Rizzuto is the author of "Hiroshima in the Morning." She tells Jim Fleming that she was unclear how to elicit the stories of Hiroshima survivors. She wanted to be sensitive and not further traumatize people over a long ago horror. And then September 11th happened. Also, Ingrid Betancourt was abducted by Marxist rebels and held captive in the jungle for 6 years. She tells the story of her ordeal in a book called "Even Silence Has an End." Betancourt talks with Steve Paulson about how she struggled to keep her soul alive and what it was like to finally be rescued.
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David Isay is the founder and president of StoryCorps which records first person narratives by Americans from all backgrounds. David tells Anne Strainchamps why peoples' stories are so powerful, both for the listeners and for the people who tell them.
CD copies are available at 1-800-747-7444. Ask for program number 10-11-07-A.
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| Ingrid Betancourt, Even Silence has an End (The Penguin Press) | |
| Rahna Reiko Rizzuto, Hiroshima in the Morning (The Feminist Press) | |
| Jessica Stern, Denial: a memoir of terror (Ecco Press) | |
- For more information on David Isay and StoryCorps:
http://storycorps.org
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Quintet on Elektra Records.
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Pat Metheny on their CD Beyond the Missouri Sky on Verve Records.
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on Elektra Records.
- The Light That Will by Stereolab on their Switched On on Elektra Records.
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