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From Our Own Correspondent

A Tale of Two Men in a City

From Our Own Correspondent

BBC

News, News Commentary

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2016

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Two friends reunited in Baghdad, hot cuisine in Chengdu and slow traffic in Serbia.

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Thank you for downloading from our own correspondent.

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This is the edition broadcast on Radio 4 on Saturday the 30th of July 2016.

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It's presented by Kate Adi.

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Hello.

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Today, how to drum up trade in China when hospitality might include chicken's feet and donkey.

0:19.4

A teenager in his new teddy bear tried to survive the civil war in South Sudan.

0:25.0

We go into the rock of Gibraltar in search of ancient humans and the odd vulture.

0:30.0

And are you sitting uncomfortably in a traffic jam this morning?

0:35.0

Then Guy Delauni feels your pain in Serbia.

0:40.0

Bomb explosions are sadly commonplace for the inhabitants of Baghdad.

0:44.4

But when 300 Iraqis died earlier this month as a result of an explosion caused by so-called

0:49.9

Islamic State, the bomb site was turned into a makeshift shrine, a rare memorial which drew many

0:56.9

of the capital's inhabitants, including two men who Lee's Dusset met. This is a story of Kerem and Siddeik.

1:05.0

It's also a story about Iraq.

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The two men first met in 2001,

1:11.0

a time when Iraq was in the iron grip of Saddam Hussein. A time

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a few of the iron grip of Saddam Hussein, a time of few freedoms.

1:18.0

Karim Wossi studying music in the United States

1:21.0

quietly slipped into Baghdad to help musicians and other artists. Once there, he

1:27.4

needed to buy an Iraqi-made suit. He knew where to find it. In Baghdad's popular Karada neighborhood, a place where all of Iraq lived,

1:37.0

people of every faith and no faith.

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Siddiqu Marroof was a young shopkeeper there. This week they met again, unexpectedly, on the same street, both in their 40s now.

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