In Conversation with Adriena Vesela: A Czechoslovak Story

This is the personal story of Adriena Vesela, a Czechoslovakian lady, who lived most of her life under communist rule, as told to the writers' S.D. Gripton and Sally Dillon-Snape. She describes in some detail the constrictions of life for the Czech people under the communist thumb but it also details the struggles she suffered from when the Berlin Wall came down in 1989 with Czechoslovakia following soon after. The change was so sudden that the citizens of Czechoslovakia had no time to take in what had happened in their lives. Freedom was cast upon them suddenly and without warning and many, like Adriena, struggled with such release. At the age of 26, she set out on a pilgrimage to England, to follow routes she'd read about in the Peak District whilst learning the English language during her time at University. Whilst there, she fell after being shocked when a blackbird flew out of a hedge as she was hiking with her large rucksack on her back. He fell to her right knee and fractured it. As she sat on the pavement just outside an English village, not knowing what to do, a car pulled up and a stranger climbed out and asked if she needed assistance. That meeting began a whole new chapter of Adriena's life as she and the stranger fell in love. And her mother thought he was perfect. An interview with a difference, a love story for our age.