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Polly Samson - the story of her family - 5x15 podcast
Category: Arts
Duration: 00:15:46
Publish Date: 2015-08-14 18:00:07
Description: Author of The Kindness, Polly Samson was born in London in 1962. Here she tells the extraordinary story of her family: of her father, Lance Samson, who left Hamburg in 1938 for London on the Kindertransport. And of her mother, Esther Cheo Ying, the author of Black Country to Red China, a memoir that moves from Shanghai to Dr Barnardo's and back to China where she became a Major in Mao's Army.
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