Musician and artist Jen Goma goes on a 48-hour journey to find and interview someone who was in one of the hotel suites during one of John Lennon & Yoko Ono’s Bed-Ins for Peace in 1969.

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‘You Had To Be There’ is a Hi Barr production. 

Created by Hi Barr.

“John Lennon + Yoko Ono: Bed-ins for Peace” was written & hosted by Jen Goma.

Produced by Julia Thompson and Web Barr.

Story Produced by Julia Thompson.

Edit, Sound Mix and engineering by Teeny Lieberson.

Original score by Teeny Lieberson.  

Artwork created by Dylan Lathrop. 

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Special thanks to our parents, friends and chosen family. And most importantly, thank you to the artists who’ve inspired us because they had to do it.

Correction: Betta de Boer van der Kolk (and not Betta de Oer) is helping to translate the interview with Nico Koster.

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