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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0:00.0	Before you listen to this BBC podcast, I want to tell you why I love podcasting.
0:04.7	Hi, my name's Tommy Dixon, and I make podcasts for the BBC.
0:08.4	I'm a big fan of stories, always loved a good book.
0:11.4	But when I started commuting for my first job, I discovered podcasts.
0:15.4	I was blown away by how a creative idea and the right mixture of sounds could take you into
0:19.2	a whole new world full of incredible stories. You know, the type that make you go, wow. And that kind of inspired me to
0:25.2	give it a go myself, which to cut a long story short led to a BBC training scheme and a whole
0:30.0	new career giving other people that exact same feeling. So if you want to hear amazing stories
0:34.2	that make you go wow like I did, they're just a tap or click away on BBC Sounds
0:38.4	BBC Sounds music radio podcasts hello everyone and thank you for being here with us at the
0:48.2	hay festival for this special and rather different edition of life changing we're here in front
0:53.5	of a live audience.
0:55.3	Thank you for coming.
1:00.6	It's good to see you all, if rather terrifying.
1:03.9	But if you've heard the podcast before, you'll know we talk to people who've lived through transformative moments in their lives,
1:10.5	events that have turned
1:11.4	everything upside down. These are often intense and very personal stories from people who may be
1:17.8	sharing their story for the first time. It can be profoundly affecting and the feedback we and they get
1:24.5	is extraordinary. Some really relate to what's being said. Others want to say thank you.
1:30.1	Many then want to share their own stories. And today we're doing something we haven't done before.
1:35.4	We're going back to one of our guests who appeared in the very first series of life-changing,
1:40.9	because what happened after the program has been transformative all over again.
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