British journalist and playwright Victoria Brittain reveals the unseen side of the ‘9/11 wars’: their impact on the wives and families of men incarcerated in Guantanamo, in prison or under house arrest in Britain and the US. Her newest book, Shadow Lives, shows how these families have been made socially invisible and a scapegoat for the state in order to exercise arbitrary powers under the cover of the ‘War on Terror’. What is our unquenchable thirst for security doing to our tradition of human rights and civil liberty?

Recorded  April 17