Exiles
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Exiles

1988
1 season
6 episodes
Documentary

A series featuring six major artists and writers who live and work in exile.

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  • Ep 1

    1.Erich Fried: Austrian Poet

    02-06-198855m

    Erich 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

    09-06-198855m

    Josef 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

    16-06-198855m

    Miriam 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

    23-06-198855m

    Edward 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

    30-06-198855m

    Faced 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

    07-07-198855m

    Abbas 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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