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The Holy Land and Us - Our Untold Stories

2023

Last aired: S1 E2, Episode 2 · 2023-03-21

The Holy Land and Us: Our Untold Stories follows actor and writer Sarah Agha and barrister, author and broadcaster Rob Rinder, MBE, along with four families of Jewish and Palestinian heritage, as they explore their personal family stories, and the ways in which they have been defined by events in Palestine and Israel.

Cast

Robert Rinder Robert Rinder

Sarah Agha Sarah Agha

Season 1

E1 Episode 1 2023-03-14 · 75 min In this first episode, Rob and Sarah are joined by a father and son who follow in their father's and grandfather's footsteps from Hackney to becoming caught up in Israel's War of Independence, and meet a woman whose grandmother survived one of the most notorious episodes of the Nakba.

E2 Episode 2 2023-03-21 · 75 min Rob and Sarah are joined by a woman who wants to find out why, when she was a child, her aunts left Egypt for the new state of Israel, and a woman who wants to know what happened to her family as her grandfather struggled to hold on to his land and orange groves in Jaffa.

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