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Rachel Corrie was killed while trying to block an Israeli bulldozer from destroying a Palestinian home in the Gaza Strip. This month marks the third anniversary of her death. In 2003, many of Rachel?s college peers were finishing school and finding jobs. What motivated Rachel to break from that pattern and instead go to the Gaza Strip and risk her life to defend Palestinian homes? Producer Liz Jones talks with Rachel's parents, Craig and Cindy Corrie, about the ideas, issues and people that influenced their daughter's life.
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Rachel Corrie was killed while trying to block an Israeli bulldozer from destroying a Palestinian home in the Gaza Strip. This month marks the third anniversary of her death. In 2003, many of Rachel?s college peers were finishing school and finding jobs. What motivated Rachel to break from that pattern and instead go to the Gaza Strip and risk her life to defend Palestinian homes? Producer Liz Jones talks with Rachel's parents, Craig and Cindy Corrie, about the ideas, issues and people that influenced their daughter's life.
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Chris Chambers
Posted on August 10, 2006 at 10:18 AM | Permalink
Review of The Life of Rachel Corrie
Rachel Corrie died whilst trying to stop an Israeli tank from bulldozing a home in the Gaza Strip. This interview with her parents, two erudite people with strong ethical and political views seems to miss the mark a little. It comes alive only about three quarters of the way through when the mother reads out one of her daughters e-mails she wrote from the Middle-East. Before that we hear about Rachel's youth and her influences. As a listener I don't find it particularly enlightening and the opening question doesn't give me much confidence. "Were there early signs that Rachel looked at the world in a unique way?" Well, she may have been an interesting, inquisitive child but a one off? A first? What clearly comes out of the interview is that she is a product of her parents and inherited their intellectual curiosity.
Unfortunately, the interview spends far too much time exploring Rachel's pre-Middle-East experiences and how that would have influenced her decision to go there. A programme on her time in the Palestinian territories interspered with her e-mails written whilst there(numerous apparently)would surely have been more riveting.