Blog posts by year and monthMay 2010
Posts (3)
Kabul: City Number One - Part 9
On November the 4th last year Paula Loyd, a cultural anthroplogist attached to the US army, was interviewing an Afghan man in a small village in southern Afghanistan. As she asked him about fuel prices he suddenly poured petrol over her from a jug he was holding. He then set her alight.
LA VACHE QUI RIT
A few weeks ago the man who held the key to one of the great mysteries of Western Europe died. He was called Emile Fradin. He was a farmer in France in a village called Glozel near the town of Vichy. And he was 103 years old. His story is extraordinary.
THE RETURN OF THE GNOMES OF ZURICH
Here are some extracts from a fascinating Panorama made in 1968 - about how there are massive spending cuts on the way and asking where they will happen. It is called Where Will the Axe Fall?