The Year that Made Me: Emily Strasser, 2009

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast · Mar 28, 2026 · 26m

Emily Strasser was in her late teens before she began to realise the depth of her family's secret. Her grandfather, George, whom she had never met, had been a scientist at Oak Ridge in Tennessee, during the development of the atomic bomb that was eventually dropped on Hiroshima. This was the start of Emily's journey to uncover the truth about her grandfather's role and to come to terms with her family's past and the guilt she has inherited.Guest: Emily Strasser, Professor in the Department of English at Tufts University in Boston and author of Half Life of a Secret.