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Aug 2021
28m 45s

Seafarers abandoned in the Gulf

THE TIMES
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What does it feel like to be abandoned out at sea? We go on board an oil tanker to tell the extraordinary story of those stranded on the MT Iba.

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Guest: Louise Callaghan, Middle East correspondent for The Sunday Times.

Host: David Aaronovitch.

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