- Radio Times
- Review by:
- David Butcher
The Burmese opposition leader’s fearsome self-control is clear in the interview where she is asked about being separated from her British husband for decades, even as he was dying of cancer: “I knew that I wouldn’t go,” she says coolly. “He knew, too.”
The reason she couldn’t go was because if she had left Burma (as the regime hoped), she would never have been allowed back, so she had to set her role as a figurehead for a nation against her family life (she had two sons in Britain as well). The nature of that choice and the defiant will of the woman who made it make for a powerful programme.
About this programme
A profile of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Burmese politician, who became an international symbol of the power of peaceful resistance after spending nearly 20 years under house arrest by the country's military junta. The programme follows her during the course of a year when she made the transition to everyday politics, and features an interview in which she reflects on her incarceration and reveals how she was affected by the death of her husband Michael Aris in 1999. There are also contributions by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and some of Suu Kyi's closest friends in Burma and Britain.
Cast and crew
Cast
- Contributor
- Aung San Suu Kyi
- Contributor
- Hillary Clinton
Crew
- Director
- Angus Macqueen
- Executive Producer
- Lucy Hetherington
- Producer
- Angus Macqueen
- Series Producer
- Sarah Waldron
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