Frontiers is an eight-part BBC television series, and accompanying book, that explored the geographic boundaries between countries. Eight writers and journalists in a variety of countries investigated the economic, political, geographical and historical reasons that account for why people are divided. The series was aired in 1989, just a few months before the fall of the Berlin Wall, which was featured in one episode.
Episodes
"Natural Break": Frederic Raphael explored the Pyrenees, the frontier between France and Spain, which at the time was preparing to join the (then) European Economic Community. "Gone Tomorrow": John Wells covered the Iron Curtain that split East and West Germans. "Gold and the Gun": Nadine Gordimer visited the war-torn border area between Mozambique and her native South Africa. "Night and Day": Richard Rodriguez showed how the rich North and poor South converged at the US/Mexican border. "Long Division": Ronald Eyre looked at the people living on both sides of the border in Ireland that splits the Republic from Ulster. "Big Brother's Bargain": Nigel Hamilton hiked up the boundary between Russia and Finland. "Border Run": Jon Swain visited the Thai/Cambodian border where thousands of Cambodian refugees had been stranded for over ten years. "Cyprus: Stranded in Time": Christopher Hitchens investigated the divided island of Cyprus.
Further reading
Frontiers, published in 1990 by BBC Books,