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When the Taliban ruled Kabul

Life under the Taliban in the 1990s, China's Cultural Revolution, and inventing the jet engine

Afghans remember life under the Taliban in 1990s Kabul, and we ask Kate Clark of the Afghanistan Analysts Network about the fall and rise of the Taliban. Plus, Jane Goodall on her ground-breaking study of chimpanzees, why race riots swept northern England in 2001, the remarkable story of a boy trapped in China's Cultural Revolution, and the invention of the jet engine.

Photo: Taliban gunners outside Kabul in November 1996.(Credit: Emmanuel Dunand/AFP via Getty Images)

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50 minutes

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Mon 19 Jul 2021 23:06GMT

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  • Sat 17 Jul 2021 13:06GMT
  • Mon 19 Jul 2021 23:06GMT

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