Tagged with: Afghanistan
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Jalalabad university bombing hits 'imam of peace'
Nadene Ghouri
Editor's note: Nadene Ghouri's Radio 4 programme about John Butt from a couple of weeks ago now has a melancholy postscript. On Tuesday, bombers struck the university he founded in Jalalabad. The programme is no longer available on the iPlayer so I've republished it here, in full. In this blog p...
The Taliban debate
Steve Bowbrick
Head of Interactive, Radio 3
UPDATE: the Taliban debate on Radio 4 has now finished and I've closed the live chat. The chat will be archived here permanently and we've lifted the seven-day limit on the radio debate so you'll be able to listen again whenever you like. If you listened, or took part in the online debate, pleas...
Has the Taliban Won in Afghanistan? Join the debate
Steve Bowbrick
Head of Interactive, Radio 3
We'd like you to join tomorrow's Radio 4 debate about the outcome of the war in Afghanistan. Host Eddie Mair is heading over to Chatham House to record the programme after he's finished on PM this evening, for transmission at 2000 tomorrow. We'll be opening the discussion here on the blog half a...
Sunday Worship from Camp Bastion, Helmand
Phil Pegum
The seeds for Sunday Worship from Helmand were sown more than five years ago. I'd always been interested in the role of religion in an organisation where the job - when all else failed and to put it bluntly - was to blow things up and kill people. It took about 18 months from first contacting th...
Afghanistan: Is It Mission Impossible?
Steve Bowbrick
Head of Interactive, Radio 3
Eric Joyce MP. Brigadier Buster Howes, Head of overseas operations, MOD. Francesc Vendrell, former EU Special Representative to Afghanistan and Lindsey German, Stop the War Coalition. Eddie Mair, presenter Eddie Mair, presenter To warm you up for tonight's debate about the war in Afghanista...
