A Sunny Place for Shady People
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 13 July 2015
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Long Eccentric expats once came to Tangier in search of sun, sea, gay sex and drugs. Today only their ghosts remain as the Moroccan authorities try to find for their country a successful balance between Islam and the West. Peace and prosperity never quite arrived when South Sudan won its independence from Sudan four years ago. But, despite tensions, people on both sides of the border still often depend on each other -- these are long-standing, if complicated, bonds. We travel to Dubai to examine a claim that this Islamic nation is a place where people of other faiths can practise their religion without fear of harassment or rebuke. The Parsis used to enjoy leading roles in Indian society. Today, their numbers are declining sharply and we're in Mumbai looking at a glorious past and wondering if the Indian government will have any success in its attempt to prevent a truly distinctive community from fading away altogether. And family life in Gaza: how the rituals of life -- working, eating and courtship -- continue amid the ruins of last year's war.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for downloading the latest edition of BBC Radios from our own correspondent, |
| 0:05.0 | the best in news and current affairs storytelling. |
| 0:08.0 | It's introduced by Kate Aide. |
| 0:10.0 | Hello, Beachside Cafes in Tangier are bulldozed as the Moroccan authorities try to |
| 0:16.6 | walk a tightrope between Islam and the West. There's chicken and beans, but no broadcasting |
| 0:22.3 | on the menu at a BBC outpost in South Sudan. |
| 0:26.5 | Dubai is criticized for its record on human rights, but for some it's a haven of religious tolerance, and from Gaza a year after the war with |
| 0:35.2 | Israel a story about a herb garden a pigeon coop and three stolen kisses. |
| 0:43.0 | Thousands more British tourists are on their way home from Tunisia this morning. |
| 0:46.9 | Extra flights have been laid on after a foreign office warning of further terrorist |
| 0:50.5 | attacks. |
| 0:51.8 | The shootings on the beach ens Seuss two weeks ago in which |
| 0:54.3 | 38 people, mostly Britons, were killed, have dealt a severe blow to tourism not |
| 0:59.3 | only in Tunisia but also in nearby countries like Morocco. |
| 1:04.0 | Police there say they've rounded up a number of people who they believe were planning to carry |
| 1:08.3 | out lone wolf suicide attacks. |
| 1:11.0 | They also report a growing number of youths leaving to join ISIS forces in Iraq and Syria. |
| 1:17.0 | The seafront in the Moroccan city of Tangier was once the place to be seen. |
| 1:22.0 | With its cafes, bars and nightclubs, this playground |
| 1:25.6 | for international tourists did not always have the most salubrious reputation, and now, |
| 1:30.7 | as Richard Hamilton tells us, it's come up against the forces of political Islam. |
| 1:36.0 | We were very naughty then, says Charles Seveny, the 97-year-old American owner of Dar Zero, a house high up on the hill in the |
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