Main content

The Flight from Tehran: British-Iranians 30 Years OnEpisodes

  • All
  • Available now
  • Next on

  1. Children of the Revolution

    5/5How a generation that has grown up both British and Iranian approaches its identity.

  2. Sister, Guard Your Veil

    4/5How women's lives changed under the new regime and why some women felt they had to leave.

  3. An Ordinary Life

    3/5For middle-class Iranians, a new life in the UK often meant a sudden loss of social status

  4. Freedom, Independence, Islamic Republic

    2/5Many of those who participated in the revolution later fled under threat of persecution.

  5. Death to the Shah

    1/5David Mattin talks to some of the affluent Iranians who came to the UK.