{"id":54588,"date":"2024-07-09T16:31:37","date_gmt":"2024-07-09T14:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=2069164"},"modified":"2024-07-10T00:19:07","modified_gmt":"2024-07-09T22:19:07","slug":"channel-4-commissions-go-back-to-where-you-came-from-social-experiment-series","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/channel-4-commissions-go-back-to-where-you-came-from-social-experiment-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Channel 4 commissions Go Back to Where You Came From social experiment series"},"content":{"rendered":"

The ambitious series aims to give people an insight into the asylum seeker experience. <\/p>

By David Craig\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Tuesday, 09 July 2024 at 14:31 PM<\/p>

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Channel 4 has commissioned a UK version of provocative social experiment series Go Back to Where You Came From, which aims to give participants and viewers an insight into the brutal reality faced by asylum seekers.<\/p>\n

The show will see six Brits with a variety of opinions on immigration and refugees sent to Mogadishu, Somalia and Raqqa, Syria, where they will experience first-hand the life-threatening danger that so many are currently fleeing.<\/p>\n

Then, they will use real migrant routes through Africa, the Middle East and Europe on a journey to the UK, which the Channel 4 synopsis states will include \u201cthe terror of small boat crossings\u201d.<\/p>\n

The programme aims to find out whether being exposed to life as an asylum seeker will change any opinions in the group or provoke any difficult conversations or reflection.<\/p>\n

The synopsis concludes: \u201cTackling the issue head on, it will confront, educate, anger, shock and tug at the heartstrings of liberals, the right wing and everyone in-between.\u201d<\/p>

Go Back to Where You Came From (working title) originally ran for four seasons on Australian broadcaster SBS between 2011 and 2018 \u2013 with the poster pictured above \u2013 premiering as the country was gripped by debate over asylum seekers arriving in small boats.<\/p>\n

A similar situation has been unfolding here in the UK recently, with the number of people crossing the Channel quadrupling in the past four years, making this a frequently raised topic during the recent general election campaign.<\/p>\n

Anna Miralis and Madonna Benjamin, senior commissioning editors at Channel 4, said: \u201cThis is an extremely bold commission that continues to reinforce the Channel\u2019s commitment to tackle difficult and highly relevant subject matter.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is hoped that this will offer up an opportunity for the British public to help understand some of the terrifying perils asylum seekers face when they attempt to travel to the UK.<\/p>\n