The Friday Documentary

Available for over a year

Imagine that conflict and violence force you to flee your country, leaving behind all that you know and love. In the chaos and panic, you have to choose a single object to take with you - something so full of resonance that it will always remind you of the life and people that you left behind. To those of us living in the comfortable West, it sounds like an intriguing parlour game. But every day, all over the world, thousands of people are forced to confront that choice - for real. In this two-part series, we hear from four such people living in Britain. Each one has a memento that is now their only tangible link with the past.