Telling Tales: The Sultan's Son and the Rich Man's Daughter

The Documentary Podcast

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Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2018

⏱️ 27 minutes

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The retelling of an ancient story from the African Islands of Zanzibar. It is a tale packed with intrigue and death defying ingenuity in which a young wife has to use her determination and magical powers to save her own life and persuade her husband of the error of his ways. And in the light of this story, we also hear from modern day Zanzibaris, who reflect on love and marriage, then and now, and share their own personal experiences.

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0:00.0	Hello from the BBC World Service and welcome to the latest edition of the
0:05.0	documentary podcast. If you have the time please rate the documentary on your
0:09.5	podcast app and leave us a comment. let us know what you think. Welcome to Telling Tales. I'm Penny Borum. The power of ancient tales is that they never age.
0:29.0	They connect us across time and space, across continents and creeds.
0:35.0	In this BBC World Service series telling tales,
0:41.0	we are retelling some of those ancient stories from around the world and
0:45.2	juxtaposing them with our contemporary experiences so that we can feel
0:50.0	their resonances and connections and are reminded about how much we all have in common
0:55.3	as human beings. Today we're in Tanzania in Matemwe, a small fishing village of
1:07.8	thatched houses on a beautiful stretch of white sandy beach on the northeast
1:12.4	coast of Zanzibar's main island and we're here at Tamani Community School. I'm going to teach a teacher Macame.
1:25.0	Cariboney.
1:26.4	My name is Macame Bacarihaji.
1:29.2	I'm a teacher in Tamani School.
1:31.9	We take this story to the students twice or three times a week.
1:37.0	Teacher Macame certainly has the rapt attention of his class of primary pupils as he tells them this much-love traditional tale
1:45.2	the story of the Sultan's son and the rich man's daughter.
1:49.0	I was a Sultan, he struck a great friendship with the
1:54.4	mata ery.
1:55.6	Not a falme.
1:57.0	A Qabh.
1:59.0	Once there was a Sultan.
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