Harriet: What Happened Next

Life Changing

BBC

Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.6 • 735 Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

In this special edition of Life Changing, recorded in front of a live audience at the Hay Festival, we are catching up with Harriet Ware-Austin, who was a guest on the programme in 2021.

Harriet had a difficult but important story to tell, concerning the deaths of her two sisters in a plane crash in Addis Ababa in April 1972. Harriet was only eight at the time and witnessed the event. Almost 50 years on, Harriet joined us to talk about the profound and long-lasting effects it had on her family. She also wanted to see if there was anyone else out there who had a connection to East African Airways Flight 720, but was totally unprepared for the extraordinary response her interview received.

Two years later, this is the story of what happened after that interview and how it has been life-changing all over again.

You can hear Harriet’s original interview here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000v8w8

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0:46.9	Hello everyone and thank you for being here with us at the Hay Festival for this special and rather different edition of Life Changing. We're here in front of a live audience.
0:52.5	Thank you for coming.
0:59.7	Thank you for coming. It's good to see you all, if rather terrifying. But if you've heard the podcast before, you'll know we talk to people who've lived
1:05.1	through transformative moments in their lives, events that have turned everything upside down.
1:12.5	These are often intense and very personal stories from people who may be sharing their story for the first time. It can be
1:18.0	profoundly affecting and the feedback we and they get is extraordinary. Some really relate to what's
1:24.8	being said. Others want to say thank you. Many then want to share
1:28.6	their own stories. And today, we're doing something we haven't done before. We're going back to
1:33.4	one of our guests who appeared in the very first series of life-changing, because what happened
1:39.0	after the program has been transformative all over again. Her name is Harriet Ware Austin. She first joined us in
1:48.3	April 2021 and she's here with us now. Please give her a warm welcome, Harriet. Thank you so much, Harriet, for joining us today.
2:04.8	It's lovely to see you.
2:06.3	Just to recap on your story, before we hear the profound impact of it being broadcast,
2:12.5	when you first came on to Life-Changing, you told us about a day in 1972,
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