4.4 • 13.7K Ratings
🗓️ 10 November 2019
⏱️ 51 minutes
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0:00.0 | BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts |
0:04.7 | Hello, I'm Lauren LeVern and this is the Deser Island Disks podcast. |
0:08.4 | Every week I ask my guests to choose the eight tracks, book and luxury they'd want to take |
0:13.1 | with them if they were cast away to a desert island. |
0:16.4 | This is an extended version of the original Radio 4 broadcast and for right reasons the |
0:21.5 | music is shorter than the original broadcast. |
0:24.4 | I hope you enjoy listening. |
0:30.0 | Music Music |
0:46.4 | My cast away this week is the lawyer Kimberly Motley. |
0:49.7 | If you happen to be an Afghanistan and run into trouble, hers is a useful name to know. |
0:54.0 | Or you could try her nickname 911, bestowed to denote her reputation as an unofficial emergency |
0:59.8 | service to Western embassies, foreign companies and the pro bono clients for whom she is usually |
1:05.6 | the only hope. |
1:07.2 | American by birth she was the first foreign litigator to practice in Afghanistan. |
1:11.9 | Not only is she a woman, using her voice in one of the world's most conservative male-dominated |
1:16.4 | cultures, she also uses the law. |
1:19.5 | She studied Sharia, the Islamic code that co-exist alongside the new Afghan constitution |
1:24.8 | and has represented clients in informal jurors, councils of elders who meet out justice |
1:30.0 | based on their interpretation of Islamic principles. |
1:33.6 | As she puts it, working the system from the inside out. |
1:37.4 | It's a far cry from her earlier life, 12 years ago she'd never left the US and was living |
1:42.1 | in working in her hometown of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, raising three children and making ends meet |
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