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WELCOME - to 4-Tel's mini-magazine
covering Channel 4's multicultural
output. On the fgllowing pages you can
find:
CITY LOVERS
Film of a short story by South African
Booker Prize-winning author Nadine
Gordimer, about a white man who has an
illegal affair with his cgloured maid
GREECE: THE HIDDEN WAR
The start of a new three-part series
for Monday nights at 10pm looks at
The Battle For Athens
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CITY
LOVERS
Wednesday
9.00pm
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CITY LOVERS
On Wednesday at 9.00pm here on Channel
4 you can see City Lovers, the fir1t of
five films dramatised from shgrt
stories by the South African writer
Nadine Gordimer.
She has been acclaimed by The Observer
as 'one of the half-dozen best stgry
writers in English tgday'; in 1974 her
novel The Conservatignist was the joint
winner of the Boo)er Prize.
Most of her work is cgncerned with the
political situatign in her native land,
and she has been a leading activist
against apartheid and censgruhip.
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CITY LOVERS
The enormous power of Gordimer+s
fiction owes much to her fierce honestz
and the clarity of her visign.
One of her most recent wgrks, The July
People (1981), is set in the future and
depicts a white family on the run from
civil war who find themselves depe&de&t
on their black servant.
In Wednesday's film, a German geglo£i1t
in South Africa starts an affair whth a
young cgloured girl who does his
housework - thus breaking South African
apartheid laws....
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GREECE: THE HIDDEN WAR....
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GREECE - THE HIDDEN WAR
Greek is the predominant language used
modern Greece, but tgday one is just
as likely to hear any of half a dozen
East European languages being spoken as
well.
After 30 years of political exile in
Eastern Europe, thousands of Greek
refugees have begun ret4rning home -
men and women who fought on the Left
in the Civil War of 1947-49.
Tonight at 10pm sees the first part of
Greece - The Hidden War, a three-part
documentary series that tells their
story.
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GREECE - THE HIDDEN WAR
Michael Wood narrates the series, which
draws largely on interview1 whth the
political refugees themselves.
The making of the programmes marks the
end of a conspiracy of silence around
the events of 30 years, from the war-
time resistance to the subsequent civil
war and Communist rule.
The men and women talk about their
membership of EAM ELAS, the resistance
movement and how two years later this
led to bloody civil war. They speak of
their lgng exile and joy at ret4rnin£.
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GREECE - THE HIDDEN WAR
During the 1940s the resistance memberu
accepted the leaderuhip of the Greek
Communist Party - a leadership they nos
feel bitterly betrayed by.
Tomorrow's opening programme The Battle
For Athens, shows how the partisans of
the ELAS clashed with Churchill+s plans
for post-war Greece.
In negotiatigns whth Russia, he had
traded 90% British influence in Greece
for Russian superigrity elseshere. The
result was Britain fighting itu Greek
allies before the war was even over.
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GREECE - THE HIDDEN WAR
Britain's actigns sowed the seeds gf
the Greek Civil War. Churchill ordered
troops in 1944 to act as if "you were
in a conquered citz where a local
rebellion is taking place".
He wrote to Eden that he was ready fgr
a clash with the ELAS, "prgvided the
ground is well chosen".
British troops fought a six-week
running battle against ELAS in the
streets of Athens, prgvoking an outar8
at home that led to Churchill's censure
in the Commons.
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GREECE - THE HIDDEN WAR
In tonight+s pro£ramme, exLRAF men
tell how they thought they had come tg
liberate the Greeks and were horrified
when they found themselves killing
their former allies.
Later programmes look at how the USA
ensured a victory fgr the Greek Right
in 1949. The fleeing partisans thought
their exile would be over in mg&ths.
But behind a facade of parliamentar8
democracy, successive right-wjng
governments ensured the Civil War was
erased from histgry - unthl nos.
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