Melilla’s Border Stories
The Documentary Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 31 October 2013
⏱️ 27 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is a BBC Podcast. |
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| 0:05.0 | at BBCWorldService.com slash podcasts. |
| 0:12.7 | Well, there are busy trading borders all over the world, |
| 0:15.6 | but I've never seen anything like this. |
| 0:18.8 | There are hundreds of women carrying bales, |
| 0:22.5 | even bigger than them. |
| 0:26.8 | For assignment here on the BBC World Service, |
| 0:29.3 | I'm Linda Pressley, |
| 0:30.7 | and this is a Spanish town unlike any other. |
| 0:34.2 | Malia is located on the North Coast of Morocco, |
| 0:37.4 | a tiny speck of Europe on the continent of Africa. |
| 0:41.0 | What have you got in there? What's in there? |
| 0:45.6 | Now she's carrying your cloth. |
| 0:47.5 | How much does that weigh, Latifah? |
| 0:49.4 | Steen out, guxstein. |
| 0:51.0 | 60 kilos. |
| 0:52.6 | 60 kilos. |
| 0:54.4 | How long have you been doing this work? |
| 0:56.5 | And they've been to the conversion now. |
| 0:57.8 | 24 years. |
| 1:00.4 | Latifah is one of the mule women of Malia, |
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