S3 Episode 4 - "Red Island"

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Back And To The Left #3. A more cinematic experience. The day when a small island nation owned a super power.

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In this programme: Korea split along the 38th parallel, child prisoners of the Japanese during World War Two, the notorious Devil's Island penal colony, the man who published Harry Potter and Sue the T-Rex skeleton.Photo: Korea 38th parallel Credit: AFP 

Sakhalin is a long, skinny island east of Russia's mainland. Russia and Japan have long fought over the territory, which has left the ethnic Koreans who came to work on the island starting in the early 1900s in a kind of limbo. Tatyana Kim, a native of Sakhalin, guides us thro ...