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Discovering what women in Doha have to say

We speak with the producer of The Real Lives of Doha’s Housewives and hear your comments. Plus why did the BBC run an advert for an oil company in a news podcast?

As the Fifa World Cup in Qatar makes global headlines, the weekly documentary recently set out to discover what women in Doha have to say about their lives in this strict patriarchal society. We speak with the show’s producer and hear your comments.

Plus, a listener wants to know why the BBC ran an advert for an oil company ahead of a report in the Global News Podcast on COP27.

Presenter: Rajan Datar
Producer: Howard Shannon.
A Whistledown production for the BBC World Service

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Mon 28 Nov 2022 03:50GMT
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