Hanna
From Minsk and London, a story about the meaning of freedom. Hanna Komar, a poet, was jailed for her activism in Belarus. This week, she tells us what it’s like to move from a place where people have to fight for basic rights, to a place where people take them for granted.
This is the fifth episode in our series This Is What A Generation Sounds Like: intimate stories from young Europeans across the continent.
Written and produced in collaboration by Katy Lee and Hanna Komar
Editors: Katz Laszlo and Dominic Kraemer
Editorial Support: Dominic Kraemer & Wojciech Oleksiak
Sound Design: Katz Laszlo and Wojciech Oleksiak
Mixing and mastering: Wojciech Oleksiak
Assistant Audio Producer: Priyanka Shankar
Project Management: Giada Santana
Web Design: Giada Santana
Illustration: Alina Stsiatsova
Visual Executive Producer: Mick ter Reehorst
Music: ‘Girl in White’ by Naviband, ‘Ballerina’ by Yehezkel Raz, ‘Ballerina Remix’ by Yehezkel Raz and Lalinea, ‘Магутны Божа’ by Volny Chor; ‘Looking for You’ by Christof Waters; Blue Dot Sessions; and Papa Bo mixing tracks by Meute, live during the protests in Minsk. Theme music by Jim Barne. SFX from Freesound.org.
This series is co-produced with Are We Europe and made in cooperation with the Allianz Foundation.
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