Bush Lessons

23-year-old Shrewsbury graduate Ruth Charlton went to teach in one of the most remote bush schools in the Limpopo Province of South Africa for three months - but stayed for twelve. Her vividly written dairies and letters home chronicle a year of her class's progress and her own journey from the naivety of an innocent abroad to a woman drawn into the complexities of modern South Africa.
(3 x 14')

Producer Chris Eldon Lee

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