Jessica Mudditt had the opportunity to live and work in Myanmar, during a brief window of history when it opened up to the world and experimented with democracy.
She and her then-husband Sherpa travelled to Myanmar in 2012 following a three-year stint in Bangladesh, when she was offered a job at The Myanmar Times.
At the time the military junta had eased its grip on the country and had allowed for some democratic reforms, including the release of pro-democracy leader Aung Sun Suu Kyi from house arrest.
Jessica worked through the momentous openly-contested elections in 2015, which delivered a landslide victory to Aung Sun Suu Kyi's party.
She's documented this in her book Our Home in Myanmar and joins Kathryn to talk about why they had to leave.
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