RN Documentary: The Best of Times, the Worst of Times - War and Memory

Part of Series RN Documentaries
Length 29:30
Licensor Radio Netherlands
Producer(s) Dheera Sujan
Formats Documentary
Topics Historical
Produced June 22, 2004
Added to PRX June 22, 2004
 

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Summary:

How war influences identity and memory in both the individual and the national sense.

Website:

http://www.rnw.nl/special/en/html/040504vh.html

Tones:

Contemplative

Language:

English

Description:

In Europe the signs of remembrance of war is everywhere. Fields in France Belgium and the Netherlands are still turning up traces of the untold numbers of war dead. In this program, Prof Jay Winter from Yale University and 3 war veterans talk of how war has shaped individual and national identity and how different wars are remembered in the collective memory.

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