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This Is Your Country Now, Too: Eve

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Stories seen through the eyes of child refugees as they leave home for the unknown.

A thirteen-year-old girl is smuggled out of apartheid South Africa to join her ANC activist father in exile in London in 1972.

Stories seen through the eyes of child refugees as they leave home for the unknown.

In the divisive years of apartheid South Africa, a young girl, Eve, is smuggled out of the country after her mother was killed. The secret plan to get Eve out, with the help of sympathisers of the ANC cause, is arranged by a white South African couple, now living in London where she will join her father, Joseph - played by Danny Sapani. 

Although successful in their mission, they meet resistance from Joseph when Eve arrives in London. But her burgeoning friendship with the couple’s son, thirteen-year-old Jack, helps to win over Joseph until the Immigration Service call at the house to interview Eve throwing her and her father’s future into doubt.

This is the fifth of seven dramas in the series about the experience of child refugees fleeing persecution to find a new life in the UK since 1939.

Cast:
Eve Motsamayi … Nokukhanya Masango
Joseph Motsamayi … Danny Sapani
Anne-Marie Levering … Olivia Darnley
Sean Levering … Paul Herzberg
The Nightingale … Pamela Nomvete 
Mr. Junies … Kevin Harvey
Jack Levering … Felix Gillingwater 
Other parts played by the company

Written by Chinonyerem Odimba 
Series devised by Nicolas Kent with Jack Bradley

Original Music / Music Supervision: Jack Newton
Director: Femi Elufowoju Jr
Producer: Nicholas Newton
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Seven stories seen through the eyes of child refugees as they leave home for the unknown.

Seven stories seen through the eyes of children. What it is to be a child refugee: the peril, the decision to flee and the obstacles facing them as they leave home for the unknown.

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