The podcast of the documentary “Inside Kabul” follows the broken daily life of 2 young Afghan women

To say that “underwear is political” is an expression that is as pertinent as it is overused. But to tell how politics can shake the intimate, questioning our identities, our cultures, our families, our friendships and our loves, is what the new native France Inter podcast, “Inside Kabul” does brilliantly. .

Directly published on the online listening platforms on August 10, 2022, this series, proposed by journalist Caroline Gillet, follows the daily lives of two young Afghan women, Marwa (23) and Raha (21), the day after the capital of ‘Afghanistan by the Taliban in August 2021.

Inside Kabul, a newspaper-style podcast estimates a political cataclysm

For a year, the two Afghan women secretly sent voice notes recorded by the Islamic totalitarian regime to the Belgian journalist of Radio France. This attracts 8 episodes and a ninth bonus, 20 to 30 minutes each. The process might seem rudimentary, but it does allow for it grasp this broken and no longer trivial everyday life with spontaneity, discretion and authenticity. Two intimate voices in the midst of the tragedy of an entire country.

This podcast in the form of an extime diary tells how they hesitate to stay or leave, work, make music or even rebel. We also believe that they find through these vocal exchanges a form of renewed relative agency, which the Islamic totalitarian regime has tried to wrest from them completely. In the dizzying intimacy of this life-threatening podcast, Marwa and Raha allow us to hear and better understand the reality of Kabul in the hands of the Taliban and the personal and collective consequences of this political cataclysm.

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