http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2016/on-kosovo-field""
On Kosovo Field" is a new drama written by Fin Kennedy that
grew out of the body of work created by PJ Harvey on and after a journey to Kosovo, told over five episodes this January
and featuring unreleased song demos (!!) from the musician woven through."
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On Kosovo Field is broadcast on Radio 4 on
Monday 9 – Friday 13 January at 10.45am and the five episodes are repeated each day
at 7.45pm."
"Writer Fin Kennedy’s starting point was Harvey’s rich material, and the images from the songs and poems are weaved through the drama as well as the song demos themselves. Kennedy and producer Nadia Molinari also travelled to Kosovo, where they retraced some of Harvey’s steps and also spent time talking to journalists, politicians and human rights activists currently working on conflict resolution and reconciliation in Kosovo.
On Kosovo Field is the search for an identity via a road trip back through a lost heritage. The two central characters are two Kosovan-born siblings Rebeka (played by Michelle Keegan) and her younger brother Dardan (played by Nico Mirallegro) who were brought to Manchester as unaccompanied minors under a special evacuation programme during the conflict in 1999. The siblings, now adults, return to Kosovo after a mass grave is discovered close to their native village.
They discover a young nation striving to forge a path for hope and reconciliation and realise that they too must journey into their past to move on. They carry a set of keys, given to them by a neighbour before they left, offering the chance to unlock their home and, with it, their memories. They are forced to confront the painful truth of what happened to their parents."