First of a five-part series written and directed by GARETH JONES with and Leicester, England - September 1983
On their first day at sixth-form college, a brash young man hitches a ride home with a taxi-driver's daughter.
Across town, a woman quits her job in a row with the boss. From these seeds of insult, real and presumed, grows a five-year story of two families - one Jewish, one Muslim - locked in rivalry and love.
For Shalom Salaam , Mamta Kaash won the Best Actress Award, and Gareth Jones
Best Screenplay, at the 1988 Cannes Television Festival.
Music composed by DARRYL WAY
Title music by STEWART COPELAND Script editor ROGER GREGORY Lighting DAVE BUSHELL Designer IAN ASHURST Producer CHRIS PARR BBC Pebble Mill
('Shalom Salaam ' is the subject of tomorrow's 'Open Air' at 11.00am on BBC1)
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