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🗓️ 25 August 2022
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Matt Chorley speaks to Shabnam Khan Dawran, an Afghan TV presenter who fled after the fall of Kabul last year. After the Taliban threatened to kill her for speaking out against their regime, she escaped to the UK where she is now a refugee. She tells her story now despite threats to her family.
Also the columnist duo Knight at the Marriott, India Knight and James Marriott, on remembering lockdown and learning French.
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0:54.4 | Hello, this is the Red Box podcast. I'm Matt Chawley, bringing to you the rest of my |
1:00.7 | times' radio show. Don't forget you can listen Monday to Friday, 10-till-one. And on Friday's show, |
1:07.3 | this week, we are looking at the energy price cap, but we try to answer some of your questions. |
1:11.6 | So if you've got questions about how the cap works, what you should do, should you try and fix or |
1:16.0 | switch? If you've just got concerns about how you're going to cope and you want to know what |
1:21.2 | help might be available, we're getting the Times Many Mental team in to try to answer your questions. |
1:26.2 | So if you want to come on and put your questions to them, email me, |
1:30.1 | Matt.Chawley at Times.Radio, Matt.Chawley at Times.Radio, and we can get you on on Friday, |
1:35.2 | and then you'll be able to hear yourself back on the podcast later on on Friday as well. |
1:40.8 | Right, coming up on today's episode, I've got an amazing interview with |
1:45.4 | Shabnam Kandawan. She's basically Afghanistan's answer to Hugh Edwards, where the news every night |
1:50.7 | is seven and ten o'clock. She was on air the night before Kabul fell to the Taliban. |
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