Dear Diary: Bristol to Tijuana
Written and presented by Liz Crow
Produced by Jules Wilkinson
BBC Radio 4
30 minutes 1996
A young woman with a chronic illness makes a trip to a clinic in Mexico for a programme of treatment. For five weeks, she journeys each day form California to the clinic in the border town of Tijuana. Bristol to Tijuana is her story, an account not only of the complications and contradictions of living with illness, but also of medical culture shock and cultural contrasts.
"Deeply moving"
Simon Hoggart on Pick of the Week
Links
- Script
.pdf format, 149kb (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader) - Audio Clip .rm format, 458kb (requires RealPlayer)
Images
Aerial view of Tijuana
"A journey into
Mexico with my eyes open" - the view on the daily journey
to the clinic
"'El Mundo Dividido":
the fence that divides Mexico and US stretches into the ocean
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