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Hello, all you happy defenders of freedom out there in V.C. Land. This is the second front radio prepared by the American...

This is the work of the artists Njung Nguyen and Esther Johnson.

It's called Liberation Radio, and it's their response to a war that was never truly declared,

despite being one of the most painful and consequential conflicts of the late 20th century,

the war in Vietnam.

American Desert Committee, Carver d'erdandhi, Cung Scott in 66.

My name's Matthew Sweet. I'm a historian and broadcaster. I'm not really an artist, but I've

been working with Nung and Esther on a project that tells a story about Sweden, Vietnam and the USA.

So I am Esther Johnson and I'm an artist and filmmaker.

Jog my memory. How did all this happen?

Well, yourself, myself and also Jung, we all met at a British Council supported R&D trip to Vietnam,

in which we were introduced to various different cultural organisations,

artists, filmmakers, all in the hope that this kind of cultural exchange

would initiate some kind of new creative collaboration.

My name is Jung Wien and I'm an artist and sound designer based in Vietnam.

I knew nothing about it until Matthew told me about the deserters, but back then I read quite a few

artists called from VOVs of Ours of about the original Liberation Radio station in 1962.

And that was the story, the narratives from the Vietnam Missise. I didn't know anything about.

In the studio is about what artists do. So I want to tell you about what we did.

The project is called Liberation Radio. It comprises a number

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