Frontiers S01E02 - Stranded in Time

The island of Cyprus is divided by a line drawn 16 years ago to separate warring Greeks and Turks. Both sides are now stranded: Cypriots living ten metres apart cannot telephone each other. Districts where thousands of people once lived are deserted; memories of the killings are fresh and emotions run high. Christopher Hitchens travels on both sides, aghast at what he finds. One person he meets is equally surprised. Andrew Constantinides , with a broad London accent, stayed too long on holiday and found himself conscripted into the Greek National Guard. Now he faces the guns of Turkish Cypriots with whom, back in London, he might have been happy to go drinking.