Podcast: Days Like These

Kiribati is the Pacific’s disappearing island – can Marita’s words raise it up?

In 2011, Marita is living in London when the sea threatens to swallow the island nation of Kiribati.

Over the next 48 hours, Marita’s grandmother scrambles for safety up a coconut tree, and the global Kiribati community waits with bated breath.

Faced with losing a heritage that she’s never truly known, Marita chases the waters back to her grandmother’s land. This is a story of reclamation, a cultural birthright, and how a wave starts a new fight 14,000 kilometres away.

Reporter Alice Matthews
Sound engineer Hamish Camilleri
Supervising producer Sophie Townsend