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World Service,6 mins

An Ode to the Pomegranate

The Fifth Floor

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The pomegranate grows in abundance in Southern Afghanistan and for the first time the blood red fruit is being exported to Europe. The pomegranate is famed across Central Asia, not just for eating but in poetry and legend too. This is the story of the pomegranate as told by journalists from Afghanistan, Iran, Turkey and Uzbekistan.

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