Part 4
Friday 12 August 2005 21:45-22:30 (Radio 3)
The Nile is the world's longest river, the lifeblood of one of the first great civilisations and the route that brought Europeans into the heart of Africa. Over four programmes, Zeinab Badawi visits the countries through which the Nile flows to explore how the river has shaped their different cultural identities and helped to form perceptions of Africa in the Western imagination.
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4/4. Egypt
In a programme which encompasses the Nilometers of the Pharaohs and Nasser's high dam at Aswan, Zeinab Badawi considers how Egyptians ancient and modern have tried to tame the river and the silt-rich annual flood it brings from the heart of Africa to the Mediterranean. As she discovers, their world-view has been coloured by the knowledge that the river is a source of life, but also of death.
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