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LONDON - HEAVY METAL IN BAGHDAD - UK TV PREMIERE!

Have you seen Heavy Metal In Baghdad yet? You really should, it’s the film Vice released this year about Acrassicauda, Iraq’s only heavy metal band and the way the occupation affected their struggle for rock freedom, their lives and music. Obviously, we think it’s amazing, but don’t trust us, trust Alan Yentob. Yentob (pretty much the most educated man in the UK) has chosen to focus on Heavy Metal in Baghdad for tomorrow night’s BBC 1 show Imagine, a programme which usually focus’ on high art’s luminaries (Gilbert and George, Werner Herzog). As well as footage from the original film, Yentob catches up with the band now and reveals the latest exciting chapter in their journey.

BBC IMAGINE…. Heavy Metal in Baghdad

2nd December 2008 BBC1 22.35