The story of 14-year-old Tarek’s repeated attempts to get to Scotland and leave behind the horrors of war in Syria. Show more
This Is Your Country Now, Too
Gustav and Franziska
44 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
Two Jewish children escape the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1939 helped by the persistence of a young British schoolteacher. Starring Damian Lewis. Show more
This Is Your Country Now, Too
Chung-yun and So-ling
44 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
It's 1962 and two children escape the great famine in Mao Tse Tung’s China to British-administered Hong Kong in our series of dramas about the experiences of child refugees. Show more
This Is Your Country Now, Too
Daughter
44 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
Yusra Warsama reflects on the final part of the refugee child's journey: growing up in a new country, suspended between two cultures, and not feeling fully part of either. Show more
Mira Hamermesh's real-life story of her escape at fourteen from Nazi-occupied Poland to Palestine, is dramatised by Claudine Toutoungi, from the memoir "The River Of Angry Dogs". Show more
Avin Shah's comedy celebrates the enterprise and grit of British Asian citizens forced to leave East Africa in the 1960s, in our series about child refugees arriving in the UK. Show more
A thirteen-year-old girl is smuggled out of apartheid South Africa to join her ANC activist father in exile in London in 1972. Show more