• 849: The Narrator

  • Dec 15 2024
  • Length: 58 mins
  • Podcast

  • Summary

  • Banias is an 8-year-old kid living in Gaza. And she has a story to tell — many stories, in fact.

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    • Prologue: While on the phone with reporter Maram Hamaid in Gaza, producer Chana Joffe-Walt gets interrupted by Maram’s daughter––Banias, eight, who grabs the phone from her mother and starts telling us about her life. The narrator arrives. (8 minutes)
    • Part One: Banias, an 8-year-old in Gaza, tells us about her life––her friends, the games she plays, the things she cares about. Everything but the war going on around her. (25 minutes)
    • Part Two: Banias talks about the war. (20 minutes)

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