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Seriously...

Across the Divide - Episode 1

Seriously...

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary

4.1885 Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Families from the many sides of the Gaza/Israeli dispute share and reflect on their own personal histories and day-to-day existence.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This was an impregnable fortress. The only way you get out was in a wooden box.

0:05.0

The controversial maximum security prison impossible to escape from.

0:09.0

And one of the duties of a political prisoner is the escape.

0:12.0

The IRA inmates who found a way. of a political prisoner is the escape.

0:12.5

The IRA inmates who found a way.

0:14.5

I'm Carlo Gableer and I'll be navigating a path

0:19.5

through the disturbing inside story of the biggest jailbreak in British and Irish history.

0:25.0

The narrative that they want is that this is a big achievement by them.

0:28.5

Escape from the maze, listen first on BBC Sounds.

0:35.0

BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds, Music Radio Podcasts.

0:39.0

Hello and welcome to Seriously from BBC Radio 4. I'm Zach Brophy and you're about to hear the first

0:46.2

episode of my Radio 4 series across the divide. It's the series in which everyday Palestinians

0:52.4

and Israelis tell me about their family histories,

0:55.3

their day-to-day lives, and their hopes, dreams and fears for the future.

0:59.8

In this episode, you'll hear the story of a Palestinian father and son from Gaza and an Israeli

1:04.8

mother and daughter who lived just kilometers away in southern Israel.

1:09.3

To hear the rest of the series, just search for, across the the divide on BBC sounds.

1:18.1

It's easy to see the images from Israel and Gaza and react with horror, anger, confusion, but war often

1:26.5

strips the details of people's lives away, reducing them to victims or aggressors, or worse

1:32.0

still to mere statistics.

1:34.8

But all of the people caught up in the conflict, live and work, have families, hopes, dreams

1:39.7

and fears, like everyone does. They just happen to live in one of the most volatile places on the planet right now.

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