Night Market in Marrakech
From One World · 41:49
Show by Al Baharul Kader
In the great night square of Jemaa el-Fnaa in Marrakech, Morocco, seventy-one-year-old storyteller Si Hassan Benali watches his circle thin as his audiences film him for a few seconds and drift away. So he stakes his whole week's earnings on a single tale, asking the crowd to put their glowing telephones to sleep in his late wife's basket and lend him their eyes instead, and begins the story of the king who bottled every story in his kingdom. What happens when his voice fails at the crucial moment, and who steps forward to carry the story across the room, is a lesson in what a story really is.The narration in this episode is AI-assisted; the story is an original work written and produced by our editorial team.Audio: MP3, 128 kbps CBR, 44.1 kHz, loudness-normalized to -16 LUFS.
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