<p>Finding peace and quiet without a hundred or more onlookers borders on the impossible. Except today. (Image: Sully, Claude and Marj picnic at Nanchang Agricultural Institute - "a wet day, but super picnic")</p>

Finding peace and quiet without a hundred or more onlookers borders on the impossible. Except today. (Image: Sully, Claude and Marj picnic at Nanchang Agricultural Institute - "a wet day, but super picnic")

Episode 16 - 2 June 1946: Escape from the Madding Crowd

This series tells the story of UNRRA, The United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, the first and largest international aid effort in human history. It's told through the eyes and letters of one of its staff, 29 year old Australian girl, Betty Souter.

Few people now living have ever heard of UNRRA or the extraordinary urgent work it performed as the tide of World War 2  turned in favour of the allied nations. Millions upon countless millions of people were displaced, starving and homeless. They had no water, no power, and no hope.

Interestingly, It’s a story that’s just as relevant today as our world faces its own challenges of political divisions, inequities, hunger, pandemic, and impending displacements of whole populations due to changing climate and rising sea levels.

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This series tells the story of UNRRA, The United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, the first and largest international aid effort in human history. It's told through the eyes and letters of one of its staff, 29 year old Australian girl, Betty Souter. Few people now living have ever heard of UNRRA or the extraordinary urgent work it performed as the tide of World War 2 turned in favour of the allied nations. Millions upon countless millions of people were displaced, starving and homeless. They had no water, no power, and no hope. Interestingly, It’s a story that’s just as relevant today as our world faces its own challenges of political divisions, inequities, hunger, pandemic, and impending displacements of whole populations due to changing climate and rising sea levels.

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Episode 16 - 2 June 1946: Escape from the Madding Crowd

Episode 16 - 2 June 1946: Escape from the Madding Crowd