Interview with Bernard Canavan - intro/cue:
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Bernard Canavan is an artist and teacher of history at the Irish Cultural Centre in Hammersmith, West London. His paintings focus on the experiences of people who left Ireland in the 1950s and 60s to come to Britain in order to make a living. It's a world he knows well, as he himself came to London as a migrant in 1959. In this interview for Radio 1812 he talks to Richard Ellis about the experiences and influence of Irish migrants at the time, about his paintings and about his exhibition 'The Faithful Departed' at the Irish Cultural Centre in Hammersmith.

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Interview with Zak Brophy - intro/cue:
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Zak Brophy studied Arabic, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Edinburgh. He has travelled widely around the Middle East, including as a volunteer for Unipal in refugee camps in Lebanon.

For Radio 1812, he talked to Cathy Aitchison about his experiences there and about how the people who he met influenced his own attitudes to life and travel.