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The Flight from Tehran: British-Iranians 30 Years On

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Exiles from the Iranian Revolution talk to British-Iranian writer David Mattin about leaving their homeland and family behind to make a new life in Britain

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The Flight from Tehran: British-Iranians 30 Years On - An Ordinary Life

Exiles from the Iranian revolution talk to British-Iranian writer David Mattin. For middle-class Iranians, a new life in the UK often meant a sudden loss of social status.

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The Flight from Tehran: British-Iranians 30 Years On - Children of the Revolution

Exiles from the Iranian revolution talk to British-Iranian writer David Mattin. How a generation that has grown up both British and Iranian has coped with its dual identity.

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The Flight from Tehran: British-Iranians 30 Years On - Death to the Shah

Exiles from the Iranian revolution talk to British-Iranian writer David Mattin. David talks to some of the affluent Iranians who came to the UK after the 1979 revolution.

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The Flight from Tehran: British-Iranians 30 Years On - Freedom, Independence, Islamic Republic

Exiles from the Iranian revolution talk to writer David Mattin. David hears how many of those who at first participated in the revolution later fled under threat of persecution.

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The Flight from Tehran: British-Iranians 30 Years On - Sister, Guard Your Veil

David hears how women's lives changed dramatically under the Ayatollah's regime and why some women felt they had to leave.

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