Another Country (Part 1)

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Another Country (Part 1)[1]
Series
Work In Progress
Original Broadcast Date
1986
Cast
Joe Frank
Format
Serious Monologue, Narrative Monologue, 58 minutes
Preceded by: Talking About Love
Followed by: Another Country (Part 2)

When his mother was depressed, you could feel her mood spreading through the house like a foul mist.

Another Country (Part 1) is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series Work In Progress. It was originally broadcast in 1986.

Synopsis

The story of a Jewish man with a depressed mother. He thinks of persecution of the Jews throughout history. He gets a job in advertising for a weapons manufacturer. He starts a relationship with a married Yemeni woman. They go to a film festival in Europe together. They fight over her interest in clothes, violence and anti-Arab themes in US movies. They attend a party with exiles from the Palestinian resistance. They choose and decorate an apartment together. He finds work with an fraudulent out of state video production company, then gets a job with B'nai B'rith. She helps found an Arabic language institute which fails, takes several language jobs. They go to a beach resort, skinny dipping at a campsite, and to a wildlife reserve with wild horses. She throws parties and dances. They fight over middle east politics. He's given the job of generating PR to support the invasion of Lebanon.

Music

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Additional credits

The original broadcast credits state: "Technical production by Tom Strother."