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The Longest Night
The Longest Night is being broadcast on XM/Sirius Book Channel
starting December 6, 2010 through the month of December
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The Longest Night - A Personal History of Pan Am 103 is a deeply emotional, fully realized audio book that begins with the narrator's learning that her husband was killed in the terrorist bombing over Lockerbie on Dec 21, 1988, and ends after a journey of twelve very long months.
More than twenty years ago, Pan Am 103
exploded over
Engelhardt is a writer, poet,
storyteller, and independent audio artist; hearing her talk about the year that
followed her husband's loss is a powerful listening experience.
However, The Longest Night is more than one woman's experience,
because it weaves conversations recorded at that time with family
and friends. Engelhardt recounts how she connected with these and other
shattered families as they created an effective political and emotional support group "The Victims Of Pan Am Flight 103."
Residents of Lockerbie describe the impact of that night on people they
knew. There are visits to the Lockerbie area and
The Longest Night is based upon Helen Engelhardt's memoir of the same name. It was directed by award winning audio book producer Jeffrey Hedquist. Recording and Sound Design by David Shinn.
Listen to a sample
of The Longest Night
photo courtesy of UPI
The Longest Night - A Personal History of Pan Am 103
Helen, Alan, and Tony
"The Longest Night is situated in an entirely
original place where memoir meets documentary,
and the result is powerful...
full of insights on love and grief...
the listening experience is effortless.
I think that The Longest Night makes a unique
contribution to the literature of memoir in audio."
Charles Potter
Grammy Award-winning audiobook director/producer
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has brought us, with The Longest Night, an eye and
heart witness account of a harrowing moment in
our collective history.
This is the story of her beloved husband who through
accidents and quirks of fate decided to board
Pan Am Flight 103. Neither he nor anyone else who
made the same decision survived the terrorist bomb
that was to send them hurtling through the sky to
unsuspecting earth in Scotland.
With the craft of a great story teller, Engelhardt
unfolds the stories of those whose lives ended and
those whose lives as they had known them also came
to a burning halt.
In these times, the oral tradition begins to take back
its rightful place as a vehicle for recording history,
instilling values, teaching lessons, focusing attention,
providing diversion, and creating community.
Engelhardt is a leading star in this revival.
Barbara Lazear Ascher
Author of —
Landscape Without Gravity, A Memoir of Grief
Playing After Dark
The Habit of Loving
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