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Balochistan’s mystery benjo man, part 1

4/14/2024 • 40 min

The epic quest to find an elderly Pakistani musician and his unusual stringed instrument Daniyal Ahmed is a flute player and anthropologist who spends his time searching out and documenting folk music across Pakistan. In 2018, he was mesmerised by a video clip of an elderly man – described as a “poor fisherman” – expertly playing a benjo, an obscure stringed ins… Play episode

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Bonus: The Black 14
My grandmother walked the rabbit-proof fence
How to talk to guerillas
Behind the locked door
I cycled across Africa for a place at my dream university
Going cold turkey in a Bangkok prison
The Pacific odyssey of a runaway rebel
Fugees Family: the football team who became my life
My dad was Britain's 'most wanted'
Trapped in an icy hell: my 72 day mountain escape
A Libyan kidnapping and the words that brought us together
Discovering my mother was a Vietnamese rock'n'roll star
Searching for the last man in the forest
Hunting for icons in the underworld, part 2
Hunting for icons in the underworld, part 1
Love in the time of revolution, part 2
Love in the time of revolution, part 1
An author, his cellmate, and a new beginning
Scams and poetry in Moscow’s underbelly
Introducing Amazing Sport Stories
Unmasking my best friend
Becoming Gamal, part 2: Behind the badge
Becoming Gamal, part 1: Magic and misadventure
The fisherman and the 'spy whale'
Brazil's loneliest fan and his footballing fairytale
Love, Loss and 'Project 22'
38 days: a family adrift in the Pacific
"My friends were arrested, or simply disappeared"
Bringing home the prime minister’s gold tooth
The Godmother of Beirut's nightlife
Dancing in the womb
The invisible child who now shines at Eurovision, part 2
The invisible child who now shines at Eurovision, part 1
Miracle on the ocean floor
Indiana Jones: The kids who remade a blockbuster
The woman who fell from the sky, part 2
The woman who fell from the sky, part 1
Bradford 12: The Asian youth who took on the racists, part 2
Bradford 12: The Asian youth who took on the racists, part 1
I save chimpanzees and they've saved me
Who is this kneeling man?
How I survived a pirate hijack
Love, war, and the cutting room floor
He was almost a mass shooter – an act of kindness stopped him
Teenage dreams on the Indian Ocean
'Don't anger the monster', part 2
'Don't anger the monster', part 1
Sugar sandwiches and smarts: a poor kid's fairytale ending

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