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The Best Episodes of Exiles Season 1

Every episode of Exiles Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Exiles Season 1!

A series featuring six major artists and writers who live and work in exile.
Genre:Documentary
Network:BBC Two

Season 1 Ratings Summary

"Erich Fried: Austrian Poet" is the best rated episode of "Exiles" season 1. It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Jill Evans and written by N/A, it aired on 6/2/1988. This episode is rated NaN points higher than the second-best, "Josef Skvorecky: Czechoslovakian Novelist".

  • Erich Fried: Austrian Poet
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    #1 - Erich Fried: Austrian Poet

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 6/2/1988

    Erich Fried fled Austria when the Nazis invaded in 1938 and destroyed his family, and went on to become their most famous living poet while residing in North London. Fried now returns to the Vienna of his childhood and visits East and West Berlin, while Observer correspondent Neal Ascherson assesses the relevance of his poetry to what Fried sees as the never-ending battle against the re-emergence of fascism.

    Director: Jill Evans

    Writer: N/A

  • Josef Skvorecky: Czechoslovakian Novelist
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    #2 - Josef Skvorecky: Czechoslovakian Novelist

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 6/9/1988

    Josef Skvorecky has lived through Nazi occupation, Stalinist clampdown, and the Prague Spring before his exile in 1968. The acclaimed novelist remembers his extraordinary chequered past and returns to one of his first loves: the bass saxophone.

    Director: Paul Lee

    Writer: N/A

  • Miriam Makeba: South African Singer
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    #3 - Miriam Makeba: South African Singer

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 6/16/1988

    Miriam Makeba was exiled from South Africa nearly 30 years ago for supporting the anti-apartheid movement. But the internationally renowned singer holds a deep conviction that one day she will return to live in a de-segregated South Africa.

    Director: Faith Isiakpere

    Writer: N/A

  • Edward Said: Palestinian Academic
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    #4 - Edward Said: Palestinian Academic

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 6/23/1988

    Edward Said, one of America's most distinguished literary scholars and critics, puts his argument for a just settlement to the Palestinian question - his homeland and his dispossessed people.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Raoul Ruiz: Chilean Film Director
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    #5 - Raoul Ruiz: Chilean Film Director

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 6/30/1988

    Faced with arrest along with other filmmakers following the 1973 military coup that ended Salvador Allende's Marxist government in Chile, Raoul Ruiz fled. He settled in Paris and embraces his exile, but his strange and beautiful films suggest he is a joker of the most serious kind.

    Director: Jill Evans

    Writer: N/A

  • Abbas: Iranian Photojournalist
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    #6 - Abbas: Iranian Photojournalist

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 7/7/1988

    Abbas was exiled from the "Islamic republic" after publishing a book of photographs in 1980 that he argued illustrates the 'confiscation' of the Iranian revolution by fanatical religious forces. Now the renowned photojournalist photographs Islam around the world, showing how its resurgence in places like West Africa is fired by the events in Iran.

    Director: Patchy Wheatley

    Writer: N/A