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Kabul and wireless - Afghanistan

Preface

The host of Afghanistan's most popular breakfast show, Massood Sanjer, 28, mocks ministers and makes fun of heavily armed and touchy people. From 1996 to 2001, he was a newsreader on the Taliban's Radio Shariat, at a time when dancing was punishable with execution - he announced such killings. Today, he lives with his family in a bullet-pocked apartment in Kabul's middle-class Macroryan area. He was interviewed during breaks on his show and on a drive around Kabul.

Credits

Interviewer: Miles Bredin



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