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ā€œI was born while my father was a hostageā€

Sulome Anderson remembers her father, journalist Terry Anderson, held hostage for nearly seven years during Lebanon's civil war

Sulome Anderson first met her father ā€“ journalist Terry Anderson ā€“ at the American Embassy in Damascus. She was seven years old and he had just been released from nearly seven years as a hostage in Lebanon. She desperately wanted to build a relationship with him, even going so far as to become a war correspondent herself and tracking down and meeting one of his captors. But Terryā€™s traumatic experiences made the task very challenging. When she was nearly kidnapped in the Middle East herself, she became determined to break out of the ā€œcycle of fascination with warā€ that had bedevilled the family. In this moving interview recorded shortly after Terryā€™s death she speaks candidly about the pressures they faced.

Presented by Matthew Banister
Produced by Gareth Nelson-Davies and Eirian Jones

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