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An Everyday story of Afghan Folk

By Liz Rigbey. A slice of daily life in a village in the wild, mountainous Pak-Afghan borders, where the only law is tribal law and there is no road, electricity or mobile signal.

Radio 4,20 episodes

Episodes

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An Everyday Story of Afghan Folk: Series 4
Episode 1
Farmer Mewa Gul and his family fear they must flee the village.
15 mins04 May 2015
An Everyday Story of Afghan Folk: Series 4
Episode 2
Zarlakhta is devastated when the Khan drives her parents and brother from the village.
15 mins05 May 2015
An Everyday Story of Afghan Folk: Series 4
Episode 3
The Khan's son ransacks the village shop, and now his father must take him in hand.
15 mins06 May 2015
An Everyday Story of Afghan Folk: Series 4
Episode 4
Mewa Gul and his family have fled the Pak-Afghan mountains for their home village.
15 mins07 May 2015
An Everyday Story of Afghan Folk: Series 4
Episode 5
When Kashmala asserts her widow's right not to marry again, Akbar Khan is furious.
15 mins08 May 2015
An Everyday Story of Afghan Folk: Series 3
Episode 1
Wisal, the son of the wealthy and powerful village warlord, would like to marry Zarlakhta.
15 mins23 Jun 2014
An Everyday Story of Afghan Folk: Series 3
Episode 2
Shopkeeper Sardar Aka has two wives at war. Now his new young wife is about to give birth.
15 mins24 Jun 2014
An Everyday Story of Afghan Folk: Series 3
Episode 3
Now that Zarlakhta's heroin-addicted bride groom has fled, her family face a rocky future.
15 mins25 Jun 2014
An Everyday Story of Afghan Folk: Series 3
Episode 4
Kashmala, the young widow, is very unhappy living in the household of her late husband.
15 mins26 Jun 2014
An Everyday Story of Afghan Folk: Series 3
Episode 5
We learn whether Sardar Aka has that longed-for son or another daughter.
15 mins27 Jun 2014
An Everyday Story of Afghan Folk: Series 2
Episode 1
By Liz Rigbey. Stories from village life in the troubled and violent Pak-Afghan mountains.
15 mins15 Apr 2013
An Everyday Story of Afghan Folk: Series 2
Episode 2
Sardar's older wife hears news which gives her reason to be jealous of his new young wife.
15 mins16 Apr 2013
An Everyday Story of Afghan Folk: Series 2
Episode 3
The poverty-stricken Mewa Gul tries to extract his family from his daughter's engagement.
15 mins17 Apr 2013
An Everyday Story of Afghan Folk: Series 2
Episode 4
Shopkeeper Sardar Aka's elder wife of is suddenly ill. Or is she just sick with jealousy?
15 mins18 Apr 2013
An Everyday Story of Afghan Folk: Series 2
Episode 5
The villagers are horrified to learn what has caused their mountain to shake.
15 mins19 Apr 2013
An Everyday Story of Afghan Folk: Series 1
Episode 1
Wealthy landowner and warlord Akbar Khan welcomes his son's friend to his household.
15 mins18 Jun 2012
An Everyday Story of Afghan Folk: Series 1
Episode 2
Mewa Gul and his son Taza Gul witness a murder.
15 mins19 Jun 2012
An Everyday Story of Afghan Folk: Series 1
Episode 3
After years of marriage to Gulnara, village shopkeeper Sardar Aka has taken a second wife.
15 mins20 Jun 2012
An Everyday Story of Afghan Folk: Series 1
Episode 4
Mewa Gul and Taza Gul agonise over what to do with their knowledge of the recent murder.
15 mins21 Jun 2012
An Everyday Story of Afghan Folk: Series 1
Episode 5
Akbar Khan lends money to his son to bet on their own dog Lucifer in a dogfight.
15 mins22 Jun 2012