About this season
Rob Rinder and Sarah Agha, along with four other families of Jewish and Palestinian heritage, explore how their families' histories were impacted by the founding of the state of Israel in 1948.
Episodes (2)
1. Episode 1
Aired 14 March 2023 • 75 min
Rob and Sarah are joined by a father and son who follow in their father's and grandfather's footsteps from Hackney to becoming caught up in Israel's War of Independence, and meet a woman whose grandmother survived one of the most notorious episodes of the Nakba.
2. Episode 2
Aired 21 March 2023 • 74 min
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.