Sunday Feature

Bosphorous Battles

Sunday 6 January 2008 21:30-22:15 (Radio 3)

Since the siege of Troy, the Turkish Straits between the Dardanelles and the Northern end of the Bosphorus have been of vital strategic importance. The water has been both a source of prosperity and the cause of political battles for Istanbul.

Tom de Waal takes a journey up the Bosphorus and talks to the writers Orhan Pamuk and Elif Shafak, Professors Gun Kut and Edhem Eldem, and Captains Rajiv Kumar and Mete Kocar to present a portrait of Istanbul as seen from its seaway.

Duration:

45 minutes

Sunday Feature

Episode and Playlist Information

• 17 Feb 08 Peru
• 10 Feb 08 Edgardo Cozarinsky
• 3 Feb 08 Columbia
• 27 Jan 08 Le Morte Darthur
• 20 Jan 08 Missing Moscow
• 13 Jan 08 Rules of Engagement
• 6 Jan 08 Bosphorous Battles
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• 16 Dec 07 RAND

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