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From Our Own Correspondent: Running Away

Running Away

04/07/2015

BBC World Service - From Our Own Correspondent, Running Away

Stories of escape - actual and artistic - from Nigeria, Hungary, Lebanon and the USA

The stories of people escaping Boko Haram in Nigeria; trying to enter the EU via Hungary; finding solace in ancient Greek drama after fleeing Syria; and leaving Los Angeles

Owen Bennett Jones introduces stories from around the world of people who dare to escape - in body or spirit - from their surroundings. In this edition:

Tulip Mazumdar meets a 17-year-old who fled the Boko Haram group in Northern Nigeria in the clothes she stood up in, carrying only the baby (and the SIM card) of the fighter she was forced to marry;
Nick Thorpe joins the exodus of African and Middle Eastern migrants trying to find a safe way into the EU over the border between Serbia and Hungary;
Kirsty Lang in Beirut witnesses an extraordinary performance of the ancient Greek tragedy Antigone, acted by a cast of Syrian refugees who find its dilemmas all too close to their own experiences;
and Alastair Leithead reflects on leaving Los Angeles after four years as the BBC's California correspondent. He can check out, but can he ever leave?

Photo: African migrants rest and wait to be transported to a refugee camp further down the road in Hungary, June 2015. (c) Nick Thorpe BBC

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