Close menu

Programme Index

Discover 11,128,835 listings and 279,896 playable programmes from the BBC

World War One: Beyond the Trenches

Series 1

Episode 3: The Famine of Mount Lebanon

BBC Two

Duration: 5 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Two HDLatest broadcast: on BBC Two England

This episode tells the forgotten story of starvation and disease that ravaged Mount Lebanon during WWI, killing a third of its population.

BBC Arabic's Carine Torbey examines how they suffered and survived. Show less

Contributors

Presenter:
Carine Torbey
Source: BBC Online

About this data

This data is drawn from the data stream that informs BBC's iPlayer and Sounds. The information shows what was scheduled to be broadcast, meaning it was/is subject to change and may not be accurate. More