Anna and Sadie's Story

“At that point I felt like I’d made a very important contact with her on a very deep level, somehow. Because she spoke to me in Polish.”

My mum, Anna, is Polish. But she’s not from Poland - she was born in Edinburgh, and has lived there for most of her life. How can someone who is completely Scottish also be completely Polish? And why does the Polish language play such an important role in her life?

You can find the transcript for this episode here.

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Over the past year, during the Covid-19 pandemic, we’ve been working with a group of people from all over the world, teaching them to podcast and helping them to tell personal stories about the experience of moving from one place to another. Everyone who took part was brand new to podcasting, and most of the episodes were made without any professional equipment, using mobile phones and free editing software. The results of this course are seven episodes: each one about a very different migration experience, and each person bringing their own style and personality. We hope you love them as much as we do.

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Anna Durkacz is a singer-songwriter, and a member of two bands, Ravaged Hearts and The Professors of Logic. The song at the end of the episode is In Praise of Polish, from the album Come of Age.

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