Tunisia on the Fault Line

The Documentary Podcast

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Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2015

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

The gun attack on the beach resort of Sousse that killed 38 tourists, deterred many holiday-makers from travelling to Tunisia. But not journalist, Frances Stonor Saunders. She packed her bags, no flak jacket in sight, and set off for an all-inclusive package deal to Hammamet, a nearby seaside resort. What did she find? As well as deserted beaches and eerily empty hotels, Frances has a chance meeting with a man who helped foil a previous terror attack on a popular tourist site; and she finds out why Tunisians are refusing to go to local hotels, despite desperate pleas from hotel owners.

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0:00.0	Thank you for downloading from the BBC.
0:04.0	For details of our complete range of podcasts and our terms of use, go to BBCworldservice.com slash podcasts. I sort of to look at the Foreign Office travel advice for Tunisia. We want to go on a package to the coast. It just says if
0:28.8	you're in the area you should keep in touch with your tour operator and follow any advice
0:32.0	from Tunisian security authorities.
0:35.0	Further attacks, they say, are likely including in tourist resorts.
0:39.0	You should be especially vigilant at this time and follow the advice of Tunisian security authorities and your tour operator see terrorism.
0:48.0	Okay, it's not saying don't go. Ladies and gentlemen welcome to Tunisia. We have just learned that Eunice Kattache Airport is 2 PM local time.
1:17.0	Temperature is 33 degrees Celsius.
1:20.0	A gun attack in June on a beach and souse left 38 European tourists, mainly British, dead.
1:27.0	As package holidaymakers cancelled their bookings, Frontline reporting was suddenly doable at bargain prices.
1:34.0	So the BBC sent me for this BBC World Service programme, Tunisia on the fault line.
1:40.0	My name's Francis Stoner's.
1:42.0	I'm a journalist, but certainly no war dog. I don't travel with the flat jacket.
1:46.4	And when I set off for the resort of Hamamette two weeks after the attack,
1:50.0	European tourists were still going there, although the hotels were a little forlorn.
2:00.0	Hello, thank you very much. Hello, how are you? Nice to meet you. Hello. Just take place please to have cocktail juice.
2:12.8	Oh, lovely.
2:13.8	Yes, I don't want anything alcoholic at this point.
2:16.0	No, it's not alcoholic.
2:17.0	Okay, good.
2:18.0	Yeah. Let's see. Wow, look at that balcony, fantastic view of the sea.
2:30.0	Oh, wow. Rose and rows of rows of sun umbrellas and
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