DID A LIGHTNING STRIKE MAKE ME A TROMBONIST?

BBC WORLD SERVCE - OUTLOOK

40 minute documentary

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Laura Impallomeni was struck by lightning while travelling in Kerala in 2005. In the days that followed she was consumed by an obsessive hunger to play a musical instrument, changing the course of her life.

Now a professional jazz trombonist with her own quintet, Laura reflects on the part the lightning strike may have played in the achievement of her ambitions.

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Credits:

Presenter: India Rakusen
Producer: Christina Hardinge