Retro Radio: Take another look at Merlinda Bobis’s Banana Heart Summer

Listen again to Merlinda Bobis’s story Banana Heart Summer | Photo from Merlinda Bobis

Retro Radio: As SBS celebrates 50 years of broadcasting, we look back at some of the interviews from the SBS Filipino archives. Listen again to Merlinda Bobis's story about Banana Heart Summer.

Banana Heart Summer is a story about a Filipino family’s love for food while experiencing hunger.
Merlinda Bobis is a Filipina-Australian author who was born in Legaspi, Albay.
Banana Heart Summer was published in 2005.

Celebrated Filipino-Australian writer shares her journey as a migrant writer and her aspirations for the future of literature

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