Die Klassen: Die Trennung
The Documentary Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2017
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
In the summer of 2015 tens of thousands of Syrians left their war torn homeland and put their lives in the hands of the smugglers who would help them navigate the hazardous route to Europe. Among the new arrivals were Mohammed Dallal, a man in his late 40s and his 16-year-old daughter Noor. Amy Zayed and Laura Graen have accompanied Mohamed and Noor for nearly two years through the emotional and bureaucratic vagaries of the refugee life. In this programme, we hear whether the family is, at last, together again.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and thank you so much for downloading this BBC World Service podcast. My name's Tim |
| 0:07.0 | Mansell and I've been working on this project off and on for almost two years. Most of the |
| 0:12.1 | work I've done has been in London. It's my colleagues Amy |
| 0:16.4 | and Laura who've done the legwork. They've been in Germany doing interviews, establishing |
| 0:22.0 | relationships, |
| 0:23.2 | and it's because of those relationships |
| 0:25.4 | that we've been able to make this program. |
| 0:28.0 | I hope you enjoy it. Welcome to Tiegel Airport in Berlin. It's a Friday morning and this place is mad. It's packed with people heading off on holiday or waiting |
| 0:45.8 | excitedly for a fly to land. I'm waiting for one too. My name's Amy |
| 0:52.3 | Zayed and for the last couple of years I've been following the fortunes of a group |
| 0:56.8 | of Syrians who came to Berlin to escape the war that has destroyed their country. This episode of De Klassen is the fourth |
| 1:06.1 | program we've made about them for the BBC World Service. Two years ago, hundreds of thousands of refugees arrived in Germany over a period of a few months. |
| 1:22.0 | About half of them came from Syria. |
| 1:26.1 | The German government set up German language classes for them. And that's where I first met Muhammad towards the end of 2015. |
| 1:37.0 | Mohammed was in his late 40s. |
| 1:41.0 | Mohammed was in his late 40s. He was a thick-set man with closely cropped gray hair. |
| 1:47.0 | He told us the story of his journey. |
| 1:50.0 | We left Turkey by boat by boat, but our boat capsized on three different occasions. |
| 2:00.0 | The first time it happened, we were in the water for seven hours. The second time we had traveled only about a kilometer when it happened but God |
| 2:08.6 | was merciful and got us safely back to the beach. |
| 2:11.9 | The third time, half of the boat, it was one of those |
| 2:15.1 | inflatable ones, was underwater all the way across the sea to Greece. |
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