Crossing East: Refuge From War - Program Seven
From: Dmae Roberts
Series: Crossing East - Asian American History series
Length: 59:00
Winner of the George Foster Peabody Award in 2007. Hosted by Margaret Cho. The Vietnam War and related political upheavals caused devastation throughout Southeast Asia. Vietnamese, Cambodian, and Laotian families often had no choice but to seek a new life in America. Vietnamese left on crowded boats, braving pirates. In refugee camps, they met with Mien and Hmong from Laos who had helped the CIA during the war and feared for their lives. Cambodians either fled the Khmer Rouge regime or left after it ended. These immigrants had to negotiate a new country with little notice. US government systems were swamped with new languages and cultures, and in Minneapolis and other cities, Hmong from Laos are still arriving. This program includes a newscast window and minute-long music breaks at :19 and :39 after the hour.
THE ACTUAL SHOW LENGTH IS 59 MINUTES. THERE ARE SEVERAL VERSIONS OF THIS SHOW DEPENDING ON HOW YOU WANT TO RUN IT.
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Winner of the George Foster Peabody Award in 2007. Hosted by Margaret Cho. The Vietnam War and related political upheavals caused devastation throughout Southeast Asia. Vietnamese, Cambodian, and Laotian families often had no choice but to seek a new life in America. Vietnamese left on crowded boats, braving pirates. In refugee camps, they met with Mien and Hmong from Laos who had helped the CIA during the war and feared for their lives. Cambodians either fled the Khmer Rouge regime or left after it ended. These immigrants had to negotiate a new country with little notice. US government systems were swamped with new languages and cultures, and in Minneapolis and other cities, Hmong from Laos are still arriving. This program includes a newscast window and minute-long music breaks at :19 and :39 after the hour.
THE ACTUAL SHOW LENGTH IS 59 MINUTES. THERE ARE SEVERAL VERSIONS OF THIS SHOW DEPENDING ON HOW YOU WANT TO RUN IT.
Broadcast History
Distributed by PRI for May 2006.
Transcript
PROGRAM SEVEN
BILLBOARD
ANNOUNCER: Major Funding for this series is provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, with support from PRI ? Public Radio International.
HOST: This is Crossing East? Our stories, our history, our America?
FARM YOON LEE: Refugee is people that someone come over and take over your homelands, and you have no place to go. You have to escape for your life.
KILONG UNG: Being on welfare is probably one of the most miserable things I?ve done in my life in America.
LYCHENG TANG: I cleaned toilets when I was in high school. I picked berries for all seasons ? cucumbers, nuts (they were so damned heavy), a big bucket for a buck, but I did it anyway because we need money to pay rent.
QUY NGUYEN: Yes, you are free, you are safe now, but you still have a connection to the country that belong to you that you live before. So it was very homesick?
Timing and Cues
00:00 - Billboard
01:00 - News hole
06:00 - Music Bed
06:30 - Segment A
19:00 - Music Bed
20:00 - Segment B
39:00 - Music Bed
40:00 - Segment C
59:00 - Silence
Additional Files
- Program 7 Trancript (7refugefromwarfinal.doc)
- Program 7 - 15 Second Promo (prog7promo15sec.mp2)
- Program 7 - 30 Second Promo (prog7promo30sec.mp2)
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Review of Crossing East: Refuge From War - Program Seven
A fine, well told story of South East Asians in America, set in chapter form.
It seemed to be purpose made to be used in smaller segments as there was a bit of repetition in the background context narration which is unnecessary to those listening to it as a whole hour production.
The stories are well told and totally engaging. Margeret Cho?s narration, though professional, seemed to be the only slightly out of kilter part of the programme if only because it was so professional and stood in contrast to all these personal histories, testimonies and memories.
Good to remind Americans of the varied cultures and histories that make up South East Asia, and especially how many of these communities have been good friends to Americans in the past.
Highly recommended listening.