Exiles
A series featuring six major artists and writers who live and work in exile.
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Cast
Seasons
- Ep 1
1.Erich Fried: Austrian Poet
02-06-198855mErich 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 retu...
- Ep 2
2.Josef Skvorecky: Czechoslovakian Novelist
09-06-198855mJosef Skvorecky has lived through Nazi occupation, Stalinist clampdown, and the Prague Spring before his exile in 1968. The acclaimed novelist remembers his extraordinary chequered...
- Ep 3
3.Miriam Makeba: South African Singer
16-06-198855mMiriam 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...
- Ep 4
4.Edward Said: Palestinian Academic
23-06-198855mEdward 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 disposses...
- Ep 5
5.Raoul Ruiz: Chilean Film Director
30-06-198855mFaced 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 e...
- Ep 6
6.Abbas: Iranian Photojournalist
07-07-198855mAbbas 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 rel...
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