28 min listen
Independent countries - Kashmir
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Length:
28 minutes
Released:
Aug 6, 2011
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Sonia Deol looks at Kashmir with the author Rosie Thomas, who went there to learn about the production of cashmere shawls, and journalist Tim Hannigan who toured the region investigating the murder of the Victorian explorer George Hayward. They discuss the pleasures and dangers of travelling in the beautiful but troubled land. Sonia also meets Adam Strudwick and Rekha Sharma a couple who are visiting all the world's countries in the order they became independent. It's a lifetime's project but already they are visiting the South American countries which had revolutions in the nineteenth century.
Producer: Harry Parker.
Producer: Harry Parker.
Released:
Aug 6, 2011
Format:
Podcast episode
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