麻豆约拍

The first of three programmes looking at how an ordinary life was transformed by extraordinary events. We begin with John Mosey. When Pan-Am flight 103 was blown up by a terrorist bomb over Lockerbie, the relatives of those on the plane had little choice but to follow events via their televisions and radios. Reverend John Mosey was one of them. His 19 year old daughter Helga was killed that night, a fact he and other family members learnt from news reports in their Birmingham home. Within 24 hours he was being interviewed about his reaction. It was the first of hundreds of such interviews he's given in the years since, and in that time he's come to see the media as the most effective means of pressing the case for justice and conveying his spiritual convictions. He returns to the archive, examining how the events of Lockerbie were reported, and re-examining his position at the centre of a terrible personal tragedy and an intense media storm. He speaks with some of those journalists who were there on the scene, and he seeks to understand how the events of the 21st December 1988 have transformed his conventional life into 'a life less ordinary'.