'Can you imagine what it's like to be forced into exile? To have to give up your sense of belonging? Leaving home. friends and often family behind? To be without papers? Without a government or embassy to protect you...?'
(Peter Ustinov)

For the past 15 years Peter Ustinov has travelled the globe on behalf of the world's refugees. In this television history, he traces the story of the hundred million men, women and children who this century have been uprooted from the country of their birth.

'The exodus from Hungary, the Vietnamese boat people, the thousands fleeing in Central America... so often these are presented as single, dramatic acts. In fact, they are part of the normal condition of mankind. And today there are more refugees than at any previous time in history. This is truly the century of the refugee.'

BBC Scotland