Village shopkeeper Sardar Aka has two wives at war. Now his new young wife is about to give birth, tensions are heightened. Sardar Aka is praying for a boy. Meanwhile his eldest daughter, Kashmala, who must live with her late husband's family, is unhappy because her father-in-law forbids her to teach at the new school. She asks her parents about the wartorn village near Jalalabad which they fled to make their home in the mountains.

A slice of village life from the wild, mountainous Pak-Afghan borders where the only law is tribal law and there is no road, no electricity and no phone - but hi-tech drones fly overhead.

An Everyday Story of Afghan Folk is based on characters and storylines from PACT Radio's daily soap, made by and for the Pashtoon people of this untamed area.

Based on a PACT Radio production led by John Butt
Written and directed in the UK by Liz Rigbey
Sound design by David Chilton
Music by Olivia Thomas
Executive Producer: John Dryden

Producer: Anne-Marie Cole
An Above the Title production for BBC Radio 4. Show less