Apparently unconfirmed newspaper reports over here suggest that members of
the Taliban are keen followers of BBC Radio's bucolic soap 'The Archers',
the longest running broadcast programme in the world.
Those of who you who know the series (being broadcast as I write) will
appreciate the sublime incongruity of the rural small talk and never-never
village idyll (it takes place 'in between' the borders of Warwickshire and
Worcestershire) and the mullahs from the desiccated hills.
Something it seems somewhere still retains a glint of humour.
Best
David Bircumshaw
Leicester, England
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