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The Documentary Podcast

OS Conversations: One year of the Taliban

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.32.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

In August 2021, the Taliban entered the capital Kabul, unchallenged, to take control of Afghanistan, 20 years after the Americans toppled them from power. The country was turned upside down. One year on, the list of challenges is long, including the millions who are facing hunger amid a dire economic and humanitarian situation. As well as warning about malnutrition, the United Nations has urged the world not to forget the plight of the country's women and girls. Three Afghans still living in the country discuss the changes to their lives with host Anna Foster. Two are young women and they reveal the severe restrictions to their rights, education, freedom and choice of clothes. Tens of thousands also fled the country last August, and we bring together Afghans who escaped and are now living in Poland, Germany and the United States. Although grateful for their safety, the emotion and pain remains at having often left loved ones behind. “I miss my home. I miss my mother. I miss my room. I miss my bed,” says Laleh in Berlin. “I miss everything about my country.”

Transcript

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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,

0:07.0

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 is 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.

0:32.4

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.

0:44.7

Hello, I'm Anna Foster on the BBC World Service.

0:48.0

And this is BBC OS Conversations on one year of the Taliban.

0:57.4

Afghanistan was turned upside down 12 months ago

1:01.1

when Taliban fighters swept back into power.

1:04.2

We'll talk to Afghans about life in the country today.

1:07.4

And we also bring together those who fled,

1:09.8

leaving their loved ones behind.

1:12.1

I miss my country, I miss my home, I miss my mother,

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