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Episode: 115. From Asylum Seeking to Cricket – with Hassan Akkad, Shomit Dutta and Andrew Lancel
Description: We talk to Hassan Akkad, who came to the UK as an asylum seeker from Syria and who earned a BAFTA for his BBC documentary ‘Exodus: Our Journey to Europe’, which used real footage from his journey from Syria. Hassan tells us about his short film, ‘Matar’, which tells the story of a day in the life asylum-seeker Matar as he tries to survive in London without being able to work legally or have a bank account. Â
‘Matar’ stars Ahmed Malek, who recently starred in ‘The Swimmers’, the feature film about the Mardini sisters escaping war-torn S...