Radio 4’s Hidden Voices, Ten Years On is well worth a listen. Tony Phillips revisits two Muslims living in Andalucia: Yusuf Idris Martínez, who tells us with resignation that he regularly gets taken for Osama bin Laden, and Dr Mansur Escudero, a Muslim rights activist and psychiatrist with some fascinating points to make and a tragic story to tell. This wonderfully offbeat piece of radio (you can criticize the BBC all you like, but hey) combines these personal testimonies with a brief history of Muslims in Spain (of whom there are now more than a million), some lovely atmospheric background sounds (of Holy Week in Granada, and of the Albaicín district) and some stirring clips of music.
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