WAR FEELS LIKE WAR
Esteban Uyarra, UK, 2003 Wednesday 17 March 2004 9pm-10pm; rpt 12.20am-1.20am; Sunday 21 March 11pm-midnight
The inside story of covering the second Gulf War, as Esteban Uyarra travels across Kuwait and Iraq in the tracks of independent journalists from around the world.
ESTEBAN UYARRA Director Interview
"You knew the marines had their guns pointed at you"
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Nick Fraser
Storyville Series Editor
War Feels Like War is the work of Esteban Uyarra, a brave man who abandoned his London job, carrying little more than a DV camera, many bars of chocolate and packages of dates.
He wasn't an authorised (ie embedded) correspondent so he didn't hang out with the allied forces. Instead, he hooked up with various equally intrepid 'unilateral' hacks, drove across the desert and arrived in Baghdad.
Uyarra's film shows what the war appeared like if you were not seeing it from behind the barrel of a tank. Wartime Iraq is a scary place, and the only way you can know what's going on is by listening to BBC World Service.
It is possible to understand what has happened since the war by looking at the images in War Feels Like War - it was never likely to work out very well.
