Are they different, or really just the same thing? And what happens after the great hunger is over? The bodies are buried, a people try to pick up the pieces and move on, rebuild from the bodies still living, rebuild a society. But there's another kind of famine - the deliberate mass starvation of a people. Natural famine is a universal horror, the ultimate breakdown of a society - the inability to feed itself, because of the vagaries of nature. Listen to The Great Hunger, Part 1 about the Holodomor or "hunger extermination" that occurred in Ukraine in the 1930's We are used to seeing the face of famine: the emaciated bodies, the dry earth, the helpless children, the despairing adults. Part 2, about the great famine in Ireland. Part 1 examines the Holodomor or "hunger extermination" that occurred in Ukraine in the 1930's. Philip Coulter visits Ukraine and Ireland to tell the story of two "famines" that continue to shape these nations today.
And who lives and who dies is determined by a brutal calculus of power. Hunger and starvation are more often the result of human action rather than nature's caprice.
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