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Home Away from Home

10.0/ 10199311m

Drama

To ease her homesickness Miriam recreates an aspect of home in her suburban British garden. Cultural memory exerts a healing power, combatting cultural appropriation, hostility towards migrants and the rift between Miriam and her Nigerian-British children.

Directed by Maureen Blackwood

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Ellen Thomas

Miriam

Ashabi Ajikawo

Fumi

Simon Lee Clarke

Abe

David Boateng

Sunny

Amy-Jo Lynch

Betty

Rosemary Da Costa

Nigerian Woman

Chantelle La Rose

1st Girl

Kandiah Binns

2nd Girl

Home Away from Home

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