The Holy Land and Us - Our Untold Stories

The Holy Land and Us - Our Untold Stories

Documentary 2023

Available on BBC iPlayer

Follows co-presenters Rob Rinder and Sarah Agha, along with four other families of Jewish and Palestinian heritage, as they explore how their families' histories were impacted by the founding of the state of Israel in 1948.

Documentary 2023

Starring Robert Rinder, Sarah Agha

EPISODE 1

Episode 1

Rob and Sarah are joined by a father and son whose relative was caught up in Israel's War of Independence, as well as a woman whose grandmother survived one of the Nakba's most notorious episodes.

1 hr 14 min · 14 Mar 2023
EPISODE 2

Episode 2

Rob and Sarah are joined by a woman who wants to find out why, when she was a child, her aunts left Egypt for the new state of Israel, and a woman who wants to know what happened to her family as her grandfather struggled to hold on to his land and orange groves in Jaffa.

1 hr 15 min · 21 Mar 2023

Robert Rinder

Host
Sarah Agha

Host
David Vincent

Director
Colette Flight

Producer
David Vincent

Producer

About

The Holy Land and Us - Our Untold Stories

DOCUMENTARY

Follows co-presenters Rob Rinder and Sarah Agha, along with four other families of Jewish and Palestinian heritage, as they explore how their families' histories were impacted by the founding of the state of Israel in 1948.

Information

Studio: bbc_two
Released: 2023

Languages

Subtitles: English (CC)

Accessibility

: Closed captions refer to subtitles in available languages with the addition of relevant non-dialogue information.
: Audio descriptions (AD) refer to a narration track describing what is happening on screen to provide context for those who are blind or have low vision.