Afghan Stars now

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

A year on from the Taliban takeover of Kabul on 15th August 2021, Sahar Zand talks to some of the Afghans who featured in her 2019 World Service programme Afghan Stars, which told the story of a ground-breaking TV music talent show in Afghanistan, which was won for the first time by a female singer. The Taliban had singled out the programme for special criticism, as it both promoted music, which their spokesman considered ‘haram’ (forbidden), and because it promoted the voices of women, which, he had said, should not be heard in public. The current situations of the musicians and media personalities whom Sahar has traced are a mirror of what Afghans have experienced in the past twelve months.

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0:00.0	The way that we interact with food, the beliefs that we have around food,
0:04.1	the emotions that food hold because food isn't just fuel, it has all of these other things.
0:08.4	In short, we are going to talk about food.
0:11.4	The food chain is the podcast with a love of all things food.
0:15.6	Something that's so much part of me.
0:17.8	Each week we take a deep dive into a story centered around food,
0:22.4	adventuring to other cultures.
0:24.1	Look at the food as a kind of a global smogous board,
0:27.3	from which I can choose and pick.
0:29.9	Every place has their own rituals about it.
0:32.3	Multiple identities, full of possibilities.
0:35.3	The food chain from the BBC World Service.
0:38.5	Just search for the food chain wherever you found this podcast.
0:49.6	I'm in a crowd of thousands of exciting Afghans waiting for the start of a concert
0:54.6	by the Afghan pop superstar, Orianna Saint.
0:58.2	They're all waving the black green red Afghan flag.
1:01.8	But of course, this couldn't happen in Afghanistan now.
1:05.6	We're in a stadium in Hamburg, Germany.
1:08.2	A country that's home to the largest population of Afghans in Europe.
1:12.7	I'm Sahar Zand with Afghan stars now for the documentary on BBC World Service.
1:31.3	And yes, the concert begins with a video of Orianna singing the Afghan National Anthem,
1:37.2	a reminder of the time before August 2021,
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