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12/14/2003 Entry: "This American Life"

After this Tuesday on, be sure to listen to last weeks program of This American Life. There, you can listen to part two of Hyder Akbar's audio diary entries from his second visit in Afghanistan.
Hyder Akbar, an American-Afghani, returned last year with his exiled father. His father, a former freedom fighter, is now a rather important official in the government.
In the second installment, Hyder describes an Afghani TV gameshow where the winner could win a case of soap; later he records an entry while in an ambush. The most heavy segment deals with a friend of the family who becomes only the third Afghan prisoner to die in captivity.

(part one)

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