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The Finest Hotel in Kabul

by Lyse Doucet

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Start the Week, BBC Radio 4 · September 14, 2025

Afghanistan and the DRC

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BBC international correspondent Lyse Doucet tells the history of Afghanistan in recent decades through the story of Kabul's Inter-Continental hotel, which opened in 1969, charting how the Soviet occupation, civil war, US invasion and the rise, fall and rise of the Taliban have all left their mark on the building and the people who worked there.

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