Chloe Hadjimatheou
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3,299 appearances
16 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard 27 Aug
Chloe Hadjimatheou’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Before long, the revolution is all-consuming, and where you stand on it defines who you are, and it exposes fault lines within communities, just like it did on Alan Way, asthma's childhood street back in London.
Neighbours living side by side have different allegiances.
Those who are for the regime and those against it.
Those who are on the streets protesting and those who are working for the state.
Even within the same families.
Anna Summer's family is no exception.
Osama knew his brother-in-law Farid worked for the government, but not much more.
And Farid knew that Osama was anti-regime and that he was going to protests.
Their family ties kept them bonded together, but they kept a safe distance from each other.
Sometimes it's easier not to know too much.
People in Syria were constantly having to make choices about who to trust and who to share intimate details of their lives with.
An American guy once told me that soon after he moved to Syria, he found out that lots of the new friends he'd made were spying on him and reporting back to the secret police.
Seriously unsettling.
But he never held it against them because he understood that it was what they had to do to survive.
This was the Syria they lived in.
Nothing about this call is normal.
The time of day, the urgency in his voice.
So Osama drops what he's doing and he goes straight upstairs to his brother-in-law's flat.
Farid starts talking, words tumbling out over each other.
He's in a terrible situation and he needs Osama's advice.
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