Open Country | Resistance
Based on Resistance by Owen Sheers
Author and poet Owen Sheers visits South Wales, the setting for his book Resistance, which was inspired by the tales he heard growing up of a secret rural army trained to hold off a potential German invasion during the second world war.
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- Type: Analysis
- Channel: BBC Radio 4
- Duration: 24'23''
- Broadcast date: 2010
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- Literary Resource
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