Tonight (Saturday) on the World Service there’s a chance to hear a most unusual play, which takes us into the heart of life on the Persian Gulf.
Tonight (Saturday) on the World Service there’s a chance to hear a most unusual play, which takes us into the heart of life on the Persian Gulf. Al Amwaj (The Waves) was written by a group of writers from Qatar and Saudi Arabia, brought together by the World Service and the British Council. They were commissioned to create a single drama that would ‘reflect the things they care about’ for an audience of listeners in all corners of the globe. So seven writers gave us seven separate stories within a single one-hour drama. It can’t have been an easy thing to pull off, writers being notoriously bad at team-playing, but the result (woven together in a two-day script workshop, led in Qatar by the veteran radio writer Nick Warburton) had an unexpected coherence.
Noor Alam is a taxi driver on his way to the airport to pick up a customer.
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