Exiles
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Play S1 E1A series featuring six major artists and writers who live and work in exile.
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- 1. Erich Fried: Austrian PoetErich Fried fled Austria when the Nazis invaded in 1938 and destroyed his family, and went on to become their most famous living poet while residing in North London. Fried now returns to the Vienna of his childhood and visits East and West Berlin, while Observer correspondent Neal Ascherson assesses the relevance of his poetry to what Fried sees as the never-ending battle against the re-emergence of fascism.CC55minJun 2, 1988
- 2. Josef Skvorecky: Czechoslovakian NovelistJosef Skvorecky has lived through Nazi occupation, Stalinist clampdown, and the Prague Spring before his exile in 1968. The acclaimed novelist remembers his extraordinary chequered past and returns to one of his first loves: the bass saxophone.CC55minJun 9, 1988
- 3. Miriam Makeba: South African SingerMiriam Makeba was exiled from South Africa nearly 30 years ago for supporting the anti-apartheid movement. But the internationally renowned singer holds a deep conviction that one day she will return to live in a de-segregated South Africa.CC55minJun 16, 1988
- 4. Edward Said: Palestinian AcademicEdward Said, one of America's most distinguished literary scholars and critics, puts his argument for a just settlement to the Palestinian question - his homeland and his dispossessed people.CC55minJun 23, 1988
- 5. Raoul Ruiz: Chilean Film DirectorFaced with arrest along with other filmmakers following the 1973 military coup that ended Salvador Allende's Marxist government in Chile, Raoul Ruiz fled. He settled in Paris and embraces his exile, but his strange and beautiful films suggest he is a joker of the most serious kind.CC55minJun 30, 1988
- 6. Abbas: Iranian PhotojournalistAbbas was exiled from the "Islamic republic" after publishing a book of photographs in 1980 that he argued illustrates the 'confiscation' of the Iranian revolution by fanatical religious forces. Now the renowned photojournalist photographs Islam around the world, showing how its resurgence in places like West Africa is fired by the events in Iran.CC55minJul 7, 1988
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Exiles
19881 season6 episodesEnded
A series featuring six major artists and writers who live and work in exile.
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- Diana Lashmore
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English
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