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Out of Armenia: BBC Radio 4 broadcasts 5-episode program about Armenian Diaspora
18:25, 08 Jan 2015
BBC Radio 4 broadcast a 5-episode program on the Armenian Diaspora
from December 29, 2014 to January 2, 2015.
Writer and historian Charles Emmerson traces the history of the
Armenian diaspora through Europe's Armenian communities today.
>From Manchester, home to Britain's oldest Armenian community, Charles
travels to Paris, the largest and most dynamic Armenian diaspora
community in Europe, still living in the shadow of the memory of the
massacres and deportations of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire in 1915.
In Venice, he meets the monks charged with the safe-keeping of
Armenian traditions of literature and song on the island of San
Lazzaro. In Istanbul, we hear the more recent stories of the city's
Armenian community - subtle architects building a new relationship
between Turks and Armenians from the foundations up.
Finally, at the foot of Mount Ararat, in Yerevan, underground jazz
music and Syrian refugees tell a new story - of a new focus for
Armenian identity and fresh challenges to its survival.
Armenians have long lived in diaspora, struggling to keep their common
identity alive in communities dispersed around the world. They became
leading figures in Ottoman Istanbul. In the 19th century, some moved
to the dirt and damp of the booming textile city of Manchester,
establishing themselves in the city's middle-class suburbs and
building the first Armenian church in north-west Europe.
Over tea and cake in warm family homes, Charles hears the stories of a
tiny but close-knit community, now concerned about how to keep alive
its identity, language and religion for a new generation of Mancunian
Armenians. The church holds services just once a month, when a priest
comes up from London. Some ask whether there will be an Armenian
community in Manchester at all in 50 years' time.
Click here to listen to the episodes.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04x6gvt/episodes/guide
http://www.armradio.am/en/2015/01/08/out-of-armenia-bbc-radio-4-broadcasts-5-episode-program-about-armenian-diaspora/
From: A. Papazian
18:25, 08 Jan 2015
BBC Radio 4 broadcast a 5-episode program on the Armenian Diaspora
from December 29, 2014 to January 2, 2015.
Writer and historian Charles Emmerson traces the history of the
Armenian diaspora through Europe's Armenian communities today.
>From Manchester, home to Britain's oldest Armenian community, Charles
travels to Paris, the largest and most dynamic Armenian diaspora
community in Europe, still living in the shadow of the memory of the
massacres and deportations of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire in 1915.
In Venice, he meets the monks charged with the safe-keeping of
Armenian traditions of literature and song on the island of San
Lazzaro. In Istanbul, we hear the more recent stories of the city's
Armenian community - subtle architects building a new relationship
between Turks and Armenians from the foundations up.
Finally, at the foot of Mount Ararat, in Yerevan, underground jazz
music and Syrian refugees tell a new story - of a new focus for
Armenian identity and fresh challenges to its survival.
Armenians have long lived in diaspora, struggling to keep their common
identity alive in communities dispersed around the world. They became
leading figures in Ottoman Istanbul. In the 19th century, some moved
to the dirt and damp of the booming textile city of Manchester,
establishing themselves in the city's middle-class suburbs and
building the first Armenian church in north-west Europe.
Over tea and cake in warm family homes, Charles hears the stories of a
tiny but close-knit community, now concerned about how to keep alive
its identity, language and religion for a new generation of Mancunian
Armenians. The church holds services just once a month, when a priest
comes up from London. Some ask whether there will be an Armenian
community in Manchester at all in 50 years' time.
Click here to listen to the episodes.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04x6gvt/episodes/guide
http://www.armradio.am/en/2015/01/08/out-of-armenia-bbc-radio-4-broadcasts-5-episode-program-about-armenian-diaspora/
From: A. Papazian