They tortured me for seven days, hit me and pulled out my tongue, says Asadullah, an Afghan refugee who has found his way through Europe to the journalist Ingrid Svanfeldt’s Internet café for refugees. Pirkko Heiske, an entrepreneur and Finnish teacher, becomes Asadullah’s new Finnish mother figure and she helps Asadullah in his struggle with the Finnish authorities. Asadullah, Pirkko och jag is a 45 minutes long radio documentary by Ingrid Svanfeldt for Yle Vega.

 

Client: Yle

Distribution: Yle

Sound-design: Jyrki Häyrinen, Yle

Year: 2016

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