Defiant daughters and dads - Sulome who met her father's kidnapper in Lebanon, Laura whose dad was a secret WW2 Navajo Code Talker, Nadia's illegal punk family adventure in Iran.
The story of three defiant daughters and the adventures sparked by their fathers.
Sulome Anderson was born in 1985 three months after her father, the American reporter Terry Anderson, was taken hostage while working in Beirut. He wouldn't be released until she was six. Now a journalist herself, Sulome experienced a remarkable coincidence when a seemingly routine interview turned out to be the start of a surprising relationship with her father's captor.
Native American Navajo poet Laura Tohe went to a school for indigenous kids, who faced punishment if they spoke their native language. For years Laura didn't know how the forbidden language of Navajo had actually shaped her father Benson's life. When he was just 16 years old, Benson had enlisted as a marine and ed the ranks of the Navajo Code Talkers. The Code Talkers was a group created by the US military as part of a World War Two wartime strategy where the Navajo language formed the basis of an unbreakable code, credited with having saved countless lives. It was key to America's success in the South Pacific. It would take Laura years to piece together fragments of her father's life and uncover his role as a Navajo Code Talker.
In 2014, Swedish-Iranian artist Nadia Tehran recorded an attitude-packed, punk-laden illegal music video in Tehran. Born in Sweden, Nadia's parents were born and bred in Iran. In 2010 when an anti-immigration group rose to prominence in Sweden, Nadia turned to music, writing a song called Refugee. Nadia wanted the video for their protest anthem recorded on the streets of Tehran, where performing music in public is forbidden for women. Nadia's father, Toomaj, said he would come along for protection and and brought them even closer together. The video received international acclaim but the success had its challenges, and in the heady aftermath, Nadia experienced a mental health breakdown. After coming out as non-binary, with their dad's unwavering , Nadia began to recover.
Presenter: Mobeen Azhar
Producer: Sarah Kendal
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