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Migrant Mother: How a Photograph Defined the Great Depression
bookshelves: spring-2012, play-dramatisation, fradio, radio-3, published-2011, history, art-forms, north-americas, period-piece, kiddlewinks
Recommended to ☯Bettie☯ by: Brazilliant Laura
Read on March 22, 2012
Lange wrote of the meeting:
"I did not ask her name or her history. She told me her age, that she was 32. She said that they had been living on frozen vegetables from the surrounding fields and birds that the children killed. She had just sold the tires from her car to buy food."
Listen here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/...
BBC blurb - A lyrical drama inspired by the events which led to Dorothea Lange's iconic photograph of Florence Owens Thompson.
California 1936. Florence Owens Thompson and her family have joined the thousands of migrant workers flocking across America in search of work. Homeless, desperately hungry and faced with the threat of mob violence, her hopeful resolution is quickly fading.
Photographer Dorothea is following the migrants to their make-shift refugee camps, desperate to find the image which will capture the extent of their hardship, to bring about a change in American policy and hearts. A chance meeting with Florence could bring about the image she is looking for.
Although inspired by a true story, certain events and characters have been created or changed for dramatic effect.
Dorothea .....Teresa Gallagher
Paul ..... Ian Porter
Florence ..... Anne Wittman
Jim ..... Kerry Shale
Henry ..... Allen Lidkey
Troy ..... Oliver Lee
Receptionist ..... Kathryn Hunt
Music by Pat Mo Sheeran
Written by Michael Symmons Roberts Directed by Susan Roberts Producer: Charlotte Riches.
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