Tirana
It's the mid-90s, and Joanna Robertson settles into a crumbling flat in Albania's capital Tirana. With the country falling into crisis, Joanna files her first news stories.
It's the mid-1990s, and Joanna Robertson is settling in her new home: a crumbling flat in Albania's capital Tirana. The country is falling into crisis - miserably poor and with outbreaks of disease so bad that the World Health Organisation feels compelled to intervene. Plenty of material for Joanna to start filing her first news stories - from a bugged phone booth in a hotel, where the call has to be paid for in advance with a pile of painstakingly counted-out banknotes.
Presenter: Joanna Robertson
Producer: Arlene Gregorius
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