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Shoaib Sharifi (part two) : Your head will be chopped after 4 o’ clock today. I felt, tasted and smelt death, and I cried

Shoaib Sharifi (part two) : Your head will be chopped after 4 o’ clock today. I felt, tasted and smelt death, and I cried

FromThe Line of Fire with Ramita Navai


Shoaib Sharifi (part two) : Your head will be chopped after 4 o’ clock today. I felt, tasted and smelt death, and I cried

FromThe Line of Fire with Ramita Navai

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Length:
69 minutes
Released:
May 11, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Part two: Shoaib talks about being captured by the Taliban, surviving two near executions, forming a bond with his captors, and how and why he stopped his fellow prisoners from killing their Taliban jailers. Shoaib has been covering his home country for the last 22 years. He's a former BBC World Service Kabul bureau chief who launched the acclaimed political debate program Open Jirga (a co-production between BBC Media Action and BBC World Service). Shoaib is one of the few Afghan journalists who decided to stay on after the Taliban took power in August, 2021, and he's currently the country director for BBC media action, the BBC’s international development organisation.    Show Notes: Watch Shoaib’s BAFTA winning documentary My Childhood, My Country: 20 Years in Afghanistan on ITV Hub The film won BAFTA Single Documentary award 2022 and is produced by Seventh Art Productions Follow Shoaib on Twitter @shoaibsharifi1 
Released:
May 11, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (11)

What can facing death and danger teach us about humanity and the world we live in, and what wisdom can be learned from working in war zones? In every episode, foreign correspondent Ramita Navai, renowned for seeking the ‘story behind the story’, talks to a fellow war reporter about the life-changing moment they faced death. As guests recount jaw-dropping stories, many never told before of kidnap and danger, they explore how the experience forever altered their outlook, and what it revealed about the way the world really works - the good and the bad. Subscribe for latest episodes and please rate and review @ramitanavai Twitter @senoritaramita Insta http://www.ramitanavai.com @aurrastudios Twitter, Insta, Facebook, LinkedIn Aurra Studios https://aurrastudios.com/the-line-of-fire/ (show notes and transcripts) Presented by Ramita Navai Executive Producers Richard Osman and Matt Raz Produced and edited by Chris Scott (@ctscott_)