Comments on: madiba’s 90th birthday http://noolo.wordpress.com/2008/07/18/madibas-90th-birthday/ a nothing blog Thu, 10 Dec 2009 09:29:47 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: hoh http://noolo.wordpress.com/2008/07/18/madibas-90th-birthday/#comment-32 hoh Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:16:26 +0000 http://noolo.wordpress.com/?p=139#comment-32 a brilliant documentary/play on robin island and Mandela’s experiences there put on the air while he was still in jail but just as the talks were going on i was amazed – SABC [state radio] producer took a big risk i called the producer and waxed lyrical – he very kindly sent me a audio tape of the piece i remember the narrator saying that the only place the prisoners could see table mountain was if they stood their toes on one end of one particular bench - they could see a tiny slither of the mountain and that the hardest thing about being in jail was the absence of hearing children let alone seeing them a brilliant documentary/play on robin island and Mandela’s experiences there put on the air while he was still in jail but just as the talks were going on
i was amazed – SABC [state radio] producer took a big risk
i called the producer and waxed lyrical – he very kindly sent me a audio tape of the piece

i remember the narrator saying that the only place the prisoners could see table mountain was if they stood their toes on one end of one particular bench – they could see a tiny slither of the mountain and that the hardest thing about being in jail was the absence of hearing children let alone seeing them

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