Episodes
| Episode | Title | First Broadcast | Repeated | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Death To The Shah | 20090112 | David Mattin talks to some of the affluent Iranians who came to the UK. Exiles from the Iranian Revolution talk to British-Iranian writer David Mattin | |
| 02 | Freedom, Independence, Islamic Republic | 20090113 | 20090519 (R4) | Exiles 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. 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. A Wise Buddah Creative production for BBC Radio 4. Many of those who participated in the revolution later fled under threat of persecution. |
| 03 | An Ordinary Life | 20090114 | 20090526 (R4) | Exiles 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. 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. For middle-class Iranians, a new life in the UK often meant a sudden loss of social status Exiles 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. 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. For middle-class Iranians, a new life in the UK often meant a sudden loss of social status |
| 04 | Sister, Guard Your Veil | 20090115 | 20090602 (R4) | Exiles 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. 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. That included a bookish young girl who had been educated abroad and found herself on trial when she applied for a job at the university. How women's lives changed under the new regime and why some women felt they had to leave. Exiles 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. 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. That included a bookish young girl who had been educated abroad and found herself on trial when she applied for a job at the university. How women's lives changed under the new regime and why some women felt they had to leave. |
| 05 | Children Of The Revolution | 20090116 | Exiles 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. 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. How a generation that has grown up both British and Iranian approaches its identity. |