Next week BBC Radio 4 broadcasts a series of programmes about people who left Iran and came to Britain.
The Flight from Tehran: British-Iranians 30 Years On
Programme website here.
Starts 12 January, Broadcast at 1545 - check website to see about listen again.
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Programme Summary
ReplyDeleteExiles from the Iranian revolution talk to British-Iranian writer David Mattin about leaving their homeland and family behind to make a new life in Britain.
12 Jan 2009 Death to the Shah
David talks to some of the first wave of mainly affluent Iranians who came to the UK after the 1979 revolution.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b00gkqp3
13 Jan 2009 Freedom, Independence, Islamic Republic
David hears how many of those who participated in the early days of the revolution subsequently faced persecution at the hands of the fundamentalist regime of the Ayatollah Khomeini and had to escape to Britain.
14 Jan 2009 An Ordinary Life
David meets middle-class Iranians for whom a new life in the UK often meant limited job prospects, financial insecurity, and a sudden loss of social status. One, a successful builder, left his wife and daughter in Tehran and ended up in Manchester. Lonely and with little English, he had to work nights, selling pizza and kebabs.
15 Jan 2009 Sister, Guard Your Veil
David hears how women's lives changed dramatically under the Ayatollah's regime and why, with modifications to family law and enforced adoption of the hijab in public, some women felt they had to leave. Including bookish young girl who had been educated abroad and found herself on trial when she applied for a job at the university.
16 Jan 2009 Children of the Revolution
David discovers how a generation that has grown up both British and Iranian has coped with its dual identity. Including an interview with the son of a political satirist who was unable to return to Iran. He recalls a time when Scotland Yard warned his father that he was a target for assassination and regrets the rifts that the revolution caused among the Iranian community in Britain.
Details of BBC Persian Channel
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